Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
.... But as you have noticed, it does not work out as well when editing shared files.
Oddly perhaps, Unix has never really provided shared writeable files. Perhaps there are good theoretical reasons for it; perhaps it was just one of those simplifying assumptions that Unix was born with, I don't know.
That's why access to shared writeable resources are controlled by a server, like CVS or svn or mysql. It's why you don't print using cat > /dev/lpr.
People seem to want to do things like this--they keep asking for applications to mediate between users editing the same file, like Windows does it, but I wonder if it's such a great idea.
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