Re: Busy Status
Re: Busy Status
- Subject: Re: Busy Status
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 21:03:52 -0800
At 16:21 -0800 11/3/2002, Jon Pugh wrote:
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At 4:07 PM -0800 11/3/02, Chris Page wrote:
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>Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar introduced a built-in file access locking mechanism
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>for applications that use the Carbon File Manager, so the pre-X behavior
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>has been restored.
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The first dialog is never hit, because fileIsBusy doesn't see the file as
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being open in the other application. However, it errors trying to open
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for access, so Chris is right, there's a way to make it work, so I'll look
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into it.
Note that Chris said "for applications that use the Carbon File Manager."
I'm **guessing** that when you find an implementation which works for that,
it will fail for Cocoa (or "straight Unix") apps. Or some of them.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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