The next version of Gnumeric will verify that the time stamp has the expected value before overwriting.
Morten On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 7:09 PM, Yury Dubinsky <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe timestamp checking must be anyway. Just lock files cannot > be a very reliable solution. A lock file could be deleted. I am not > talking about more exotic hard links when lock files will be saved in > different directories. > > >> --------------------------------------------------- >> On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:28:29 -0400, Morten Welinder <[email protected]> >> wrote : >>> [...] >>> >>> Yes. >>> >>> And now a reasonable follow-up question would be what that reason was, >>> but I don't >>> remember the details. It was discussed in mail or on IRC. >>> >>> However, a quick look says that it can't work right under NFS -- and >>> networked >>> file systems are the primary reason why one would want locking. >>> Specifically, >>> O_EXCL isn't going to be necessarily exclusive. >>> >>> M. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnumeric-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list >> _______________________________________________ >> gnumeric-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list >> > _______________________________________________ > gnumeric-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
