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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.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-01 20:37 UTC|newest]

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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