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.

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