Re: File Locking Question
On Jul 14, 2:58 pm, alejandrina <apat...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to use Java's FileLock class to synchronize writing to a
file **across machines**. The file resides on a file server. Under
Windows, it works perfectly (ie, only one machine at a time can gain
access, the others wait,no clobbered file, everything is written in
order). Under Linux (same code) the file gets clobbered. No exceptions
are thrown.
Can anyone offer suggestions??
Here is the critical code segment:
//lock the file and wait till we can
FileChannel channel = fos.getChannel();
FileLock lock = null;
try {
while ((lock = channel.tryLock()) == null) {
System.out.println (Utils.getHostname() + " Failed lock...wait");
Thread.sleep(100);
}
System.out.println (Utils.getHostname() + " Locked:" + lock);
System.out.println (Utils.getHostname() + " Lock type is "+
((lock.isShared())?"shared":"exclusive"));
System.out.println (Utils.getHostname() + " Is lock valid: " +
lock.isValid());
//write the title first if noone's done it
//and they asked for one
if (channel.size() <= 0 && bbTitle != null)
channel.write (bbTitle);
channel.write(bb);
} catch (Exception e) {
throw (e);
} finally {
if (lock != null) {
System.out.println (Utils.getHostname() + " Releasing lock");
lock.release();
}
}
I found out we were using Samba on these computers. When we took that
away, file locking worked perfectly under NFS.
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