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Re: File Synchronization


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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