[Unison-hackers] clobberin gin star configurations

Benjamin Pierce bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu
Mon Apr 4 19:35:31 EDT 2005


> About a year or two ago I set up a star configuration:
> many "clients" syncing to one central "server". At
> that time unison would create a .# temp file such that
> if two unisons from different systems would be syncing
> the same file at the same time they would each create
> the same .# temp file and thus clobber each other. 
> 
> At that time a special unstable version existed that
> would create a .#<processid> temp file and thus the
> clobbering would not happen. The current stable
> version does not seem to do this. Is this no longer
> needed? Or do we still need to fix this.

I remember this conversation from a while back, but have lost track of what
happened to the fix.  So I guess it needs to be fixed again.  Should be a
one-liner, I think...

    - Benjamin





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