NFS File Locking

[Cameron Simpson]

On 28Nov2007 20:05, Karl Pearson <karlp at 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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