[grisbi-user] Database lock

Ludovic Rousseau ludovic.rousseau at gmail.com
Thu Dec 12 20:31:37 CET 2013


2013/12/12 Rainer <rgpb at online.de>:
> On 12.12.2013 12:30, Rainer wrote:
>> If two persons are using the same database on a shared mount from two different computers,
>> data loss is not impossible.
>> Did not find anything in the manuals, and feel there is no file lock,
>> and short test (0.6.0 linux vs. 0.8.9 winxp) showed that the one who writes first looses his data.
>> Is this tackled in 1.x ?
>
> Could meanwhile compile the sources and found out that a lock file is created,
> but in /tmp (or wherever temp is), and not in the directory where the file is.
>
> Thus, starting a second instance from Windows over a SMB file share will not see the lock.
>
> Is this a bug for the bug database, or a feature request to put the lock into the same directory as the file?

I don't think the bug tracker http://bugs.grisbi.org/ has a bug or
feature category.
Just file the bug so the idea is not lost.

Thanks

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau


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