Re: [Netatalk-admins] file-locking and netatalk

[Lars O. G. <gr...@gm...>]

> i am planning to set up a netatalk-fileserver and was asked to implement
> a function that informs the user, if a file he wants to open is already
> in use by another user. can anyone give me a hint how to do this, or
> where this might be already documented?

Hi,

do you need file locking (which is made to ensure that data integrity is 
preserved in a technical meaning) or something that is working on a more 
general layer, giving you a dialog box saying "the file UVW is in use by 
user XYZ"? The first is the applications responsibility as far as I 
understand and should be supported on netatalks side. The second would 
need some coding I guess. Interesting idea, though, some kind of what 
cvs does with an appleshare frontend.

Lars.