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

[Neulinger, Nathan]

MS Office does byte range locking - not full file locking. Byte range =
locks in afs are no-ops. They are completely ignored.

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-6679
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: openafs-info-admin@openafs.org=20
> [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Christian Fischer
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 8:23 AM
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] AFS file locking doesn't work anymore=20
> with ms office xp
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> Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> > Christian Fischer wrote:
> >> no, as I wrote, we didn't notice when the change happened.=20
> (Only the
> >> users did  :-(  ). However, officially afs should support=20
> file locking
> >> doesn't it?
> >> What we can see, is that if the file is on a samba share,=20
> then MS-Office
> >> opens it only the first time read-write, then read-only.=20
> If the file is
> >> on afs, it is always opened read-write.
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> > Samba supports byte range locking.  AFS does not.
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> I am talking about whole file locking!
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> Christian Fischer
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