On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:39:02PM +0100, Joost Verburg wrote: > Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > >We have a filesystem... > >Filesystems are shared between computers... > >Computer have users... > >Users run LyX... > >LyX loads the same file... > > LyX can set a write lock on open files.
How? NFS locking is notorious for working only on Fridays when the moon is full. > There are indeed two options: > > 1) Display an error message when the file is already opened by another > LyX process. How do you know that a file is opened by a process in a portable manner? > It will be impossible to know which windows have the data > of the document (they all look the same independent of the process). > 2) Use a single process by default so users will automatically get a new > view with the right contents. > > Option 2 is definitely more user-friendly. As in "can't run batch converters anymore just because someone views a lyx file"? Andre'
