From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-04-16T01:04:10+09:00
Subject: Re: File locking, portably?

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:

> 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?


File.flock should work - execpt for NFS.  if you are on a hetrogeneous NFS
systems then i'd imagine you have much bigger problems though...

-a
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