[Unison-hackers] clobbering in star configurations

HvR hvrietsc at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 4 13:43:32 EDT 2005


> About a year or two ago I set up a star
onfiguration:
> 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

Thanks looking forward to it.

HvR


		
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