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Open File Locking and Mac OS X?

Posted by Cliff on from the stepping-on-some-other-processes-files dept.

ArcticMyst asks: "In Mac OS X the responsibility of locking open files has moved from the operating system to individual applications. With the exception of Apple's most recent release of AppleWorks, I have not been able to find many applications written for Mac OS X that will lock a network resident file when it is opened. Not marking a file as locked allows more than one user to have a file open, then edit and save back to the original file. Even most of Apple's own applications fail to do this. Apple does provide information on how to make sure that open files are not edited while they are open. Why do so many applications fail to provide this security?"

2 of 33 comments (clear)

  1. Isn't it obvious? by peterdaly · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple has quietly entered the groupware collaboration market.

    -Pete

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    Soccer Goal Plans
  2. Big deal by jsse · · Score: 5, Funny

    Blah! You call this an innovation?! Back in the days we had SHARE.EXE to handle file locking which is not present in Windows 3.x. Of course, sometimes files mysterically remained locked when nothing was running, but at least it's safe until next reboot. Most important, a user had full control over this locking mechanism by NOT loading SHARE.EXE during boot, then more than one user could access to the same file!

    Talking about reinvent the wheel...kids these days...