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Re: File Synchronization
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: File Synchronization
- From: "Roger L Gates" <rgates at chandlerevans dot com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:33:30 -0400
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 11:33:07 -0400
Brian Sassone <brians@xwarecorp.com> wrote
> What type of file caching does Cygwin use and can it be disabled?
>
> Here's my problem:
> I mount a mapped drive from a local Linux machine. If I first run a
> script residing on this mount in Cygwin, then edit it on the linux
> machine, cygwin won't see any changes to that file unless I access it
> (touch or edit) first. Executing the script again will yeild old
> results.
You can change this behavior by adding "oplocks = false"
to smb.conf on the Linux machine. For more information
see "File-Cacheing.txt" in the Samba documentation.
Roger Gates <rgates@chandlerevans.com>
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