Multiple Users Concurrently Editing Processing Tables

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Bob Stockler propounded (on Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 01:03:47PM -0400):
| Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote (on Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:08:46PM -0400):
| 
| | Bob Stockler propounded (on Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 10:53:23AM -0400):
| | | What this prevents is one user editing a table and not saving it
| | | before leaving for lunch, taking a nap or whatever, and then later
| | | someone else trying to edit that table.  UNIX/Linux users would
| | | know the user name of the one who had the table open, as would
| | | Windows users having filePro 5.0.13 or later.
| | 
| | Lsof can tell you that too.
| 
| I don't have that on my Windows box.  Also, it's be a PITA to
| scan lsof's output before editing a table.

I don't know of lsof for Windows, but what scanning?

If you just type 'lsof', you get miles of output, but if you give it a
couple of pathnames, that's all it will tell you about.

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JP