LockFile() and UnlockFile() are working

[Bill Medland]

On March 21, 2003 04:59 pm, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> 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.

Only the smbfs bit (which of course is not actually Samba)

> 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.

The Samba server does the right thing, so host the file on unix/linux.

>
> > 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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