Re: Significance of .GNUstepUDlock

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, December 31, 2001, at 06:10 PM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On Monday, December 31, 2001, at 01:24 PM, Ravindra wrote:
>
> > What is the purpose of this file and whether there is any way to stop 
> > it from being created. If file is required to be created is it 
> > possible to by pass this file access, so that other instances of the 
> > application work free.
>
> It's a lock file to protect defaults data while it is being updated.  
> I'm not sure it is actually necessary in
> the current implementation though.  If it ever fails to be removed 
> (other than because your program crashes),
> that's a bug and it would be nice to get a reproducable test program in 
> order to fix it.  I have never seen a
> copy of it left over except when a crash occurs.

As I think the file is not necessary (we can use writeToFile:atomically: 
to update the on-disk defaults
database in a safe manner), I'll probably update NSUserDefaults to 
dispense with the lock file.
Unless anyone knows a good reason why I shouldn't ....