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Re:Appending to a file from multiple processes by ridiculous_fish on Thursday August 04, 2016 @04:18AM (#12224186)
There may be no locking mechanism available. One example is multiple computers writing to a file on an NFS share with the nolock mount option.
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Re:Appending to a file from multiple processes by pjc50 on Thursday August 04, 2016 @06:54AM (#12224682)
> multiple computers writing to a file on an NFS share with the nolock mount option.

Yes, but that's the kind of thing everyone explicitly tells you never to do.

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