Re: FolderActions bug?
Re: FolderActions bug?
- Subject: Re: FolderActions bug?
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 01:55:00 -0500
On 4/26/04 1:42 AM, "Andrew Oliver" <email@hidden> wrote:
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No, but the AFP/SMB/NFS daemon may well do, and that's the process that
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actually manages the file handle.
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All these network protocols support file locking. It isn't unreasonable for
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them to set the busy flag on a file when the file lock is set. Hmm... hang
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on, isn't that exactly what it's for?
The daemon doesn't know because the AppleScript busy status flag is a user -
level flag. These daemons run even when you aren't logged in, so they can't
be dealing with stuff that is only running when you have a user logged in.
Besides, busy and locked aren't always the same things.
john
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