Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:39:38 +0200 (CEST) | From | Bodo Eggert <> | Subject | Re: PATCH/FIX for drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c |
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Helge Hafting wrote:
> None on the file level I hope, for it will surely get abused. > Windows have exclusive open for example, and there acrobat reader > locks the pdf file it views, so you can't make a new version without > killing acrobat first. (And then you have to restart it to > view the new file.) Stupid in the extreme. Fortunately, acrobat can't > do that on linux where there is no (easy) opportunity to do so.
The default open mode on network-aware DOS-systems will automatically aquire an exclusive lock in order to maintain DOS 2.0 compatibility, and the filename is part of the file's metadata. Windows seems to have kept this behaviour. -- "Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid." -David Hackworth - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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