From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Exclusive file access
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 15:37:55 -0500
Date: 2015-09-01T15:37:55-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ms52b3$ijv$1@loke.gir.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87d1y22mot.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk
"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@nbi.dk> wrote in message
news:87d1y22mot.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk...
> Ahlan Marriott <ahlan@marriott.org> wrote:
>
>> I am not trying to protect the file from other tasks I am trying to
>> protect the file from other processes - ie other programs or utilities
>> - perhaps executing on other computers if the file in question is on a
>> network. I want to open the file in such a way that I am granted
>> exclusive write access.
>
> I'm not even sure all operating systems support this.
Most don't. That's why it's implementation-defined, and you're SOL if your
implementation doesn't properly implement the Windows sharing flags (which
have no Unix counterpart).
Randy.
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-27 13:52 Exclusive file access ahlan
2015-08-27 14:27 ` gautier_niouzes
2015-08-31 23:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-09-01 16:23 ` Pascal Obry
2015-09-01 20:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-08-27 14:42 ` Björn Lundin
2015-08-27 14:48 ` G.B.
2015-08-27 15:08 ` Björn Lundin
2015-08-27 18:38 ` tmoran
2015-08-27 23:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-08-27 23:29 ` Pascal Obry
2015-08-28 7:25 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-08-27 15:15 ` ahlan
2015-08-27 18:29 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-08-28 5:41 ` ahlan
2015-08-28 7:10 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-08-28 17:40 ` ahlan
2015-08-28 19:49 ` Anh Vo
2015-08-28 21:06 ` Simon Wright
2015-08-28 21:38 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-08-29 7:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-08-29 8:31 ` Pascal Obry
2015-08-29 12:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-08-30 11:35 ` Florian Weimer
2015-08-30 12:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-08-30 19:37 ` Florian Weimer
2015-08-31 7:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-08-31 21:12 ` Florian Weimer
2015-09-01 7:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-09-07 18:27 ` Florian Weimer
2015-09-07 19:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-09-11 16:54 ` Florian Weimer
2015-08-31 23:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-09-01 7:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-08-29 16:07 ` gautier_niouzes
2015-08-29 17:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-09-01 12:37 ` brbarkstrom
2015-09-01 14:05 ` ahlan
2015-09-01 15:13 ` Simon Wright
2015-09-01 20:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-09-01 15:17 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-09-01 20:37 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2015-09-01 16:05 ` G.B.
2015-09-01 20:02 ` brbarkstrom
2015-09-01 21:17 ` Simon Wright
2015-09-05 15:52 ` Björn Lundin
2015-09-01 20:31 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-09-01 15:31 ` ahlan
2015-09-05 15:56 ` Björn Lundin
2015-09-06 17:38 ` brbarkstrom
2015-09-06 19:52 ` Björn Lundin
2015-09-07 15:18 ` brbarkstrom
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