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Ray Strode halfline at gmail.com
Wed May 19 19:45:58 PDT 2010


Hi,

> Getting apps right that work correctly on a shared NFS with multiple
> logins on different machines is even harder than getting it right on a
> single machine, simply because NFS is a PITA when it comes to
> concurrency and nobody gets that right. Maybe we should just stop caring
> about that case, and gtk should create an NFS-safe lock that makes it
> impossible to run an apps that way.
That absolutely won't fly.  I know Red Hat in particular has big
customers that depend on it in its half-working-current state right
now.  And they push *hard* for the problems they run into to get fixed
as they crop up.

--Ray


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