From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2004-04-16T00:40:30+09:00
Subject: Re: File locking, portably?

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, John Platte wrote:

> On 2004 Apr 15, at 9:54, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>
> >>> SSH tunneling?
> >>
> >> This is getting somewhat less portable..... :-)
> >
> > for me it's o.k. - we are all linux.
>
> Y'all are probably aware, but I should mention that PuTTY has quite a
> complete SSH feature set for Windows (including ssh-agent), and is
> MIT-licensed.

Yes, I'm using that, but have not done much with it
programmatically.  But this seems a long way round, with dependencies,
to get file locking...  Is there anything just using ruby that is
reliable?

        Hugh