LockFile() and UnlockFile() are working

[Alexandre Julliard]

Paul McNett <p at ulmcnett.com> writes:

> I just confirmed... while locking seems to work if two instances of Visual 
> Foxpro are running on Wine on the same machine, it DOES NOT work over the 
> network.  I had one instance on Wine and one instance on WinNT.  Both 
> instances were interacting with the same table on a third machine.  The two 
> instances of Visual FoxPro did not respect each other's locks.  Bummer.  
> Big bummer.

AFAIK the Samba filesystem doesn't support locking. Locks should work
across the network with NFS, but of course from a Windows machine that
might be a problem. I'm afraid we can't do much in Wine, this will
require fixing smbfs.

> So... chances of this ever getting implemented on Wine are, in your opinion, 
> pretty slim?  If so that's too bad, because I saw a great possibility of 
> porting lots of legacy business apps over to Linux using Wine.  There are, 
> as I said before, a ton of apps out there built on desktop database 
> software...  bummer.

Actually if you mount with the right options and set the right
permissions on the file, mandatory locking should work. That's the
theory though, I haven't tested it...

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com