[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #226: WinGRASS fails to create .gislock opening a mapset

[GRASS GIS]

#226: WinGRASS fails to create .gislock opening a mapset
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 Reporter:  msieczka        |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  major           |   Milestone:  6.4.2                    
Component:  Default         |     Version:  svn-develbranch6         
 Keywords:  wingrass, qgis  |    Platform:  MSWindows XP             
      Cpu:  All             |  
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Comment(by mmetz):

 IIUC, the .gislock file is not created under windows because kill() does
 not exist under windows, used by find_process().

 Under Linux, assume the following scenario: a group of people are working
 from different machines on the same location, different mapsets. The
 location is on a network drive accessible by everyone. Now g.mapset
 mapset=othermapset using lock (GIS_LOCK) checks if it could kill the pid
 written in .gislock. But if the pid in .gislock has been written by a
 different machine/system, then the pid in .gislock has nothing to do with
 the pid's available to lock, and the kill()-test is complete moot. Right?
 In this case it would be more helpful if .gislock would not hold a pid,
 but the name of the user, e.g. user at host, currently accessing the mapset.

 Therefore I would suggest to skip the find_process() step and assume that
 a mapset is locked as long as the file .gislock exists. And always, also
 on windows, write the file .gislock.

 Markus M

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