file locking

[jakov at vmlinux.org]

Brian Vincent wrote:

>I've been playing around with file locking and Wine, namely the fact
>that Wine doesn't have any.
>
>Is there any way around this, maybe placing the burden on a
>filesystem?  If I wanted to share files between two different users
>(say with something dumb like file permissions 666), is there any way
>to prevent the two people from stomping on each other?
>
>

This could almost be FAQ?  I think the discussions always boiled down to
that integratation with
Samba and/or DCE would be that best way. (But perfect is the enemy of good.)

http://us1.samba.org/samba/
http://www.opengroup.org/dce/download/


//Jakob