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On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:19:36PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote: >>>> On Sat, 3 Mar 2001 02:13:42 +0100 (MET) >>>> Joerg Schilling <schilling AT fokus DOT gmd DOT de> said: > >> VED (and similar nvi) does record locking of edited files by first >> opening the file with O_RDWR and applying a record lock. Then it opens >> the the file for reading and reads the file into the buffer. >> >> This definitely does not work with Cygwin on Win ME. >> >> - Will this work on Win NT ? > >No. The locking semantics in Cygwin is completely different from >UNIX. A lock is acquired by a file descriptor, not by a process. >This is the semantics of LockFile or LockFileEx invoked by the >Cygwin DLL. > >> But then there should definitely a fix in cygwin or a hint in the FAQ. > >I think such a troublesome locking mechanism should be eliminated >from the Cygwin DLL or should be noted by a document. I appreciate the clarification but, as I've noted, if a change in documentation or source code is appropriate, then I expect someone in this mailing list to provide it. Maybe you and Joerg can work together to provide something appropriate? cgf
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