Re: Simple Question KDE

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• From: Kevin Krammer <krammer@xxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 10:14:44 +0200
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On Friday, 2012-04-06, Asbenson, Lyndell L wrote:
> Why does kde use NFS locking? Thanks Lyndell

Not sure if I understand the question correctly, but all kinds of file locking 
used in KDE are for the purpose of safe-guarding against concurrent writing to 
the same file.

Without any kind of externally enforced single access mechanism such as file 
locking, two processes working on the same on-disk data would otherwise easily 
overwrite each others changes.

Cheers,
Kevin
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Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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