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

[Frank Bay <frankbay4 gmail com>]

I often access an open Gnumeric file from a script with ssconvert. I would
not like exclusive locking. I also often reopen a last-saved file in
another window to help straighten out some blunder I've made. I could live
with a warning if it were innocuous.

Frank
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:28:29 -0400, Morten Welinder <mortenw gnome org>
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.
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