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

[Neulinger, Nathan]

Please read the list archive and the wiki. There is already a proposal
for how to do it, but you cannot just simply convert everything to whole
file locks - if you do that, tons of programs on the client side will
fail. The client will have to manage all byte-range locks locally, but
translate to whole file locks when talking to the server.=20

Basically, the client cache manager code will need to proxy the lock
requests and manage who gets what locally on the system.

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Henrik Goijer
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 9:48 AM
> To: Christian Fischer
> Cc: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] AFS file locking doesn't work anymore=20
> with ms office xp
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> Hi,
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> I'm just new on the list . I'm very interested in OpenAFS but i din't
> knew much about it. the reason why i join the list. For learning.
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> I was thinking about this problem. (maybe it's a stupid idea=20
> or what ever.)
> And came up with the idea that it would be a nice solution if there
> was some kind of interface which translates byte-ranging lockings into
> whole-file lockings and back.
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> Henrik
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> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:36:16 +0100, Christian Fischer
> <christian.fischer@agrl.ethz.ch> wrote:
> > Chris Crowther wrote:
> > > Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
> > >
> > >> MS Office does byte range locking - not full file=20
> locking. Byte range
> > >> locks in afs are no-ops. They are completely ignored.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >    Would translating those into whole-file locks instead=20
> be a workable
> > > solution?
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> > translating into whole-file would be for us THE solution
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