Re: How to prevent Gnumeric from overwriting the same file by different gnumeric instances

[Morten Welinder <mortenw gnome org>]

> Is there a reason that the patch attached to that bug wasn't applied?

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.