News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on FTP is 50 years old. Parent comment

Re:FTP is 50 years old by smoe on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:02PM (#26839055)
The backend team in one of my previous jobs (around 2010) had an interesting file locking mechanism.

All the developer were sat around one table but you couldn’t see each other behind the dual screens. So every hour or so, somebody stood up to inform the team that he is going to be editing file xyz, so please don’t touch.

It wasn’t production though, everyone was just working on a shared staging system.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:FTP is 50 years old by TheManInThePub on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:19PM (#26845377)
>an interesting file locking mechanism

Only 5 years ago, we had an 'editing stick'. Only the person physically in possession of the editing stick was allowed to make edit the configs to our (early 90's vintage) SCADA system.

Frankly the system worked very well: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

We only got rid of the editing stick when the machinery in question was scrapped.

[ Parent | on HN ]