[OpenAFS] AFS file locking doesn't work anymore with ms office xp

Christian Fischer christian.fischer@agrl.ethz.ch
Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:36:16 +0100


Chris Crowther wrote:
> Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
> 
>> MS Office does byte range locking - not full file locking. Byte range
>> locks in afs are no-ops. They are completely ignored.
>>  
>>
> 
>    Would translating those into whole-file locks instead be a workable
> solution?
> 

translating into whole-file would be for us THE solution