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  4. From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
  5. Subject: Re: NFS file locking
  6. Message-ID: <1992Aug16.171740.29129@prl.dec.com>
  7. Sender: news@prl.dec.com (USENET News System)
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  9. Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Paris Research Laboratory
  10. References: <889@marvin.jpl.oz> <1992Aug16.131858.7219@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
  11. Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 17:17:40 GMT
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  14. In article <1992Aug16.131858.7219@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>, system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) writes:
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  16. > I don't either, but this is standard behaviour -- vi on UNIX doesn't
  17. > lock the file until it wants to write on it, so with multiple active edit
  18. > sessions, the last writer will win
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  20. vi _doesn't_ lock files.  Anyway, locking sucks.
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  23. Boyd Roberts            boyd@prl.dec.com
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  25. ``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''
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