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Re: FolderActions bug?
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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:

> No, but the AFP/SMB/NFS daemon may well do, and that's the process that
> actually manages the file handle.
>
> All these network protocols support file locking. It isn't unreasonable for
> them to set the busy flag on a file when the file lock is set. Hmm... hang
> 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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