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Re: Exclusive locking of a file on an NFS filesystem

by Abigail-II (Bishop)
on Jun 14, 2002 at 11:17 UTC ( [id://174453]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Exclusive locking of a file on an NFS filesystem

Whether you can reliably lock a file over NFS depends on the implementation of NFS on the involved systems. In general, you should avoid using locking over NFS - it's certainly not going to be portable.

Abigail

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