mallon@hsi.UUCP (Dan Mallon) (12/15/89)
A project I am working on ports to many different environments. Among these are 3Com and Novell. One of the newest features I am adding involves locking files. I've implemented this using the locking() function from the MSDOS library. I cannot fully test the additions out yet, as I don't have access to 3Com and Novell environments on site. Since I also lack information about the systems, I was hoping someone could answer a question I have. If two users are accessing the same file by locking, writing, locking, writing, etc., what would happen if one user crashed for some reason before she/he unlocked the file? Would the system recognize a crash and free the lock or would the second user be locked out permanently? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please respond via email, as I don't subscribe to this newsgroup. Thank you. -- Dan Mallon mallon@hsi.com Health Systems International {uunet,yale}!hsi!mallon
jrc@hpdml93.HP.COM (Jim Conrad) (12/21/89)
The Microsoft server will close (and, in the process, unlock) files if the underlying transport notifies the server when connections fail. Jim Conrad jrc@hpbsrl