On 1/9/2010 10:45 AM, Marcello Romani wrote: > Programmer In Training ha scritto: <snip> >> I dislike all forms of file locking. I find it useless and arbitrary. >> I'm glad web servers don't engage in file locking, otherwise we'd never >> be able to update our websites. >> > > That statement is just plain stupid. File locking is essential in > network filesystems, otherwise you would risk to lose data if two users > where to edit the same file at the same time, without the OS or the > application telling one of them that the file is in write-mode by the > other. > > But this has nothing to do with OOo, does it ?
OOo engages in file locking. Let the OS/fs take care of file locking, then. -- PIT
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