[pvrusb2] WinTV USB2/Tv-Viewer question

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 29 03:10:14 CDT 2013


Am 29.08.2013 00:04, schrieb Lorne Shantz:
> It is building the file and I can actually watch it as it is building since Linux doesn't lock files like Winbloze.
On Windows an applications needs to explicitely allow shared access. For 
example you can say that your application has read/write access while 
others may only read.
Unix based systems and Windows simply have different approaches to file 
locking whereby each has its pros and cons. See also here: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_locking

Regards,
Sven


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