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From: garym@telesoft.UUCP (Gary Morris @flash)
Newsgroups: news.software.notes
Subject: possible locking problem
Message-ID: <219@telesoft.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 88 22:36:54 GMT
Organization: TeleSoft Inc., San Diego, CA
Lines: 17
Keywords: notes locking responses problem nfs

We have been having occasional problems when two user try to post a response
to the same note at the same time.  It appears that the index file gets
updated incorrectly as what we end up with is one response where the text is
not what the person posted but is random text from some other part of the
notesfile. 

We are running notes on a Sun3/150 and it is mounted via nfs (soft r/w) to
about 20 other Sun2 and Sun3 machines.  It is very heavily used and we often
have 3 or 4 people simulateously reading the same notesfile or responding,
usually from different machines (via nfs). 

Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour?  I thought the lock files were
supposed to prevent this problem.
--GaryM
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