[Libreoffice] [PATCH] Replace command domainname by getdomainname() on Unix

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 11/13/2011 03:42 PM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 03:04:57PM +0100, Arnaud Versini wrote:
>
>> I've seen it is used by using gdb on
>> _osl_getFullQualifiedDomainName. I don't remember how but I could
>> provide you the bt after the build. It's not directly but
>> _osl_getFullQualifiedDomainName is used during file locking.
>
> That's probably for the name of the lockfile: If the same user runs LO
> on two different machines that share (part of) the filesystem through
> NFS, the lockfile should not have the same name so that the LO on one
> machine does not see the lock of the LO on the other machine.

No, IIRC, that data ends up in the content of the lock file. So that (a) 
a meaningful message about who is currently locking a file can be 
presented upon concurrent access, and (b) a stale lock file from a 
crashed soffice instance run by the same user can be detected.

Stephan