[OpenAFS] file access

[Derrick J Brashear]

On 5 Dec 2002, amar deep kumar wrote:

> Hi,
>     in AFS how file writes are synchronised, if suppose two 
> processes are writing the same file, how the file will be updated. 

last writer wins

> or is there any method to lock a file while writing to it, but 
> again what would happen if that file is already cached on other 
> machines, does the file server breaks the callback of all those 
> machines.

it does, but if the file is open already that won't help.