[GRASS-dev] Locking is not supported on Windows
Marco Pasetti
marco.pasetti at alice.it
Sun Jun 1 12:26:59 EDT 2008
Hi Glynn,
> IIRC, if you just set GIS_LOCK (to anything) in init.bat, g.mapset
> will work. On Windows, the etc/lock program always succeeds (after
> printing a warning), so it's up to you to ensure that you don't run
> multiple GRASS sessions concurrently in the same mapset.
at the moment I don't have GRASS installed on this machine, so I cannot
check it, but IIRC the .gislock file was not created, even if I added
GIS_LOCK=0 in the init.bat;
that missing causes a problem when trying to close a mapset.
Marco
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