Re: NFS File Locking

On 28Nov2007 20:05, Karl Pearson <karlp@ourldsfamily.com> wrote:
| I believe you. So, what of something like XV or GIMP then? They make an
| exclusive lock against the file, don't they?

I'm pretty sure XV doesn't lock the file. Like Rick, I've never traced it but I'm pretty sure I've used XV to view updates to an image while I changed it with another program.

It's mostly only on Windows that most apps offend by locking all their data files by default.

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