kernel support for open share modes

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:40:20AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:30:28AM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
> > In practice it is not terribly common for an application to require this
> > level of corrdination however.
> 
> I'm no expert on Windows, but people who are tell me that applications
> do actually depend on share locks quite frequently.

Yes they depend on them - but they don't know how they
work. Ask J. random developer on Windows how share modes
work. I would be real money they give an approximation to
reality, but only an approximation....

Jeremy.