Re: dosemu locking capabilities

[Marcel van der Heide <mvdheide@mweb.co.za>]

On Friday 08 November 2002 00:22, Anderson Pereira Ataides wrote:

> I believe this is a solution, not the best, but a solution. The problem is
> that I tried this once  but did not work. When I locked a file in a login
> session, a second one could not check that file was locked and aborded.
>
> Also, i did not tried with patchset 1.1.3.7, but locking is a problem with
> NFS too. If it works with NFS, I am really next to leave Windows
> workstations and use Linux + dosemu in all of them.

Our app doesn't use locking of a region, it just locks the whole file and that 
works fine under dosemu 1.0.x. If locking of a region doesn't work, than that 
is something that should be fixed in dosemu.

My solution eliminates the problem of stacking multiple layers of software on 
top of each other while they don't understand each other's locking 
implementation (and gives a great speedup if you process a lot of data). 

If you are thinking of dumping windows alltogether, maybe you'll be 
interrested in the Linux terminal server project (http://www.ltsp.org). It 
lets the workstations boot via (bootrom / PXE / bootrom image on floppy) from 
the server. No software to install and maintain on each workstation. I am 
starting to use it and it works great.

Best wishes,

Marcel