[plug] Dosemu

John Summerfield summer at os2.ami.com.au
Thu Dec 2 20:28:27 WST 1999


> accessing data on an ext2 partition and the FS will lock them
> as it would lock normal programs trying to write to the same
> file.. Is this the case ?

Unix and Linux do not, by default, lock any files. Protection against 
concurrent updates of files os one of several areas where they are 
especially weak.




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