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Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:02:56PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >>> I was trying to use gnucash over sshfs, to allow several machines to >>> handle the same file. It complained that it was unable to get a lock, >>> and so couldn't prevent simultaneous writes. This was no problem, >>> because there isn't another person working on them. For the rest, >>> everything seemed to work fine. >>> >>> However, when trying to reopen the file, I found that it had not been >>> written, but instead it was deleted. So not only did I lose the work of >>> the session, but it actually deleted my previous work as well. >> >> Are you sure this isn't a bug in sshfs? > > No, I'm not sure about that. But from gnucash's behaviour, it seems > that sshfs doesn't support locking (which I suppose is a known missing > feature, but I didn't check), and gnucash handles that situation very > badly. I've just posted a fix for this bug to the upstream bug tracker. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549595 for further details. Regards Micha -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFItu+/WN0/4pnhQbQRAtESAKCuuoTxKMlPvHVl2MOWD57UMabAOACgks78 pEeQKZd8yfZzG27gJ4auBzU= =WMsf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
