file locking

[Robert Shearman]

Vitaly Lipatov wrote:

>В сообщении от 14 Июль 2005 06:09 Rob Shearman написал(a):
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>>As much of the file locking as possible is done at the file system
>>level, but the only filesystem that supports the Windows style locking
>>semantics is smbfs. The rest we have to emulate in the wineserver. As
>>the wineserver isn't shared between processes (Alexandre is doing work
>>towards making this possible and I am doing work on the security side to
>>make it safe to), the only other alternative is a shared locking server
>>(as suggested by the Samba team). AFAIK, no one has started implementing
>>their suggestion.
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>Rob, could your explain more in detail, in what condition now work above 
>shared looking server (I correctly understand, what such way of support file 
>loking is now chosen?). I would like, if is possible, participate in its 
>creation, but I do not know, who above what works. For the information on a 
>status of the project as I see it there is a page 
>http://wiki.winehq.org/FileLocking
>

I'll add information I know about the problem to the wiki page.

-- 
Rob Shearman