Re: filelocking

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:22:38PM +0200, Kim De Smaele wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have written a script which enable a filelocking ( for one speciffic
> file ).
> Most of our users are using vi, but some of them are using the win-client
> ultra-edit (  via ftp protocol ) which gives me the problem that the
> filelocking is being bypassed. any idea's ( I have to grant ftp access )?
> by the way, thisis on solaris 2.6
> 

First find out if the ftp server itself checks for locks.  If so, make
your script use the same locking system, and the ftp server should be
able to detect a lock.

Do you want to deny access to ftp when your script has locked the file?

There is probably a way to get the kernel to lock the file too, but I
can't help you there... :(

Mike