[Wine] Shared file not working properly

Geoff Streeter geoff at dyalog.com
Wed Nov 30 02:34:30 CST 2005


At 2005-11-29 23:36 -0800, Brian Litzinger wrote:
>I'm running an application that runs with a shared file.
>
>That is multiple instances of the application open the same
>file and use some sort of record locking.
>
>Under MS Windows, vmware, win4lin the application works correctly.
>
>Under wine, the 2nd and subsequent incarnations of the application
>report
>
>Error - Cannot Open Data File
>C:\DATA\DATABASE.DF1
>This File is already open on this Workstation or it is set to Read Only Mode
>Procedure New File Menu 22
>
>I've used the file from a local filesystem, via smbfs, and via cifs. All
>fail in this same way under wine.
>
>I'm guessing some record locking call is not doing the right thing.
>
>Any pointers on how I might trace down this problem?
>
>--
>Brian Litzinger

What version of windows are you specifying? Windows 9x only has write 
locks. NT and later support read locks.

Geoff Streeter 




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