Accessing KDE data files from multiple computers

[Kevin Krammer]

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On Thursday, 9. May 2002 01:00, Neal Lippman wrote:

> My question is: Does KDE contain any sort of synchronization method, so
> that if I simultaneously logged in on two different systems, there wouldn't
> be a problem with colliding reads/writes to various kde files? For
> instance, if the kmail client running on one system reads/writes the mail
> files, what happens to the kmail client running on another system? Or to
> the files themselves, if both clients are reading/writing mail?

I think it isn't a good idea to try this.
If I remember correctly this would require locking the files, and this is not 
supported over nfs.

That's why you get corrputed indices when using, for example, mutt while 
having KMail running.

However, I just read something like that on kmail mailinglist, Ingo will know 
much more about this.
(Or search the kmail mailinglist archives for discussion about mutt and kmail)

>
> I know this wouldn't happen often, but I MIGHT log in to more than one
> machine at a time, and I wouldn't want all my mail, bookmarks, etc to
> become corrupted.

I think it will depend on the application.
Konqueror keeps its bookmakrs synchronized between different process of 
itself.
It might be able to handle the above situation unless you edit the bookmarks 
simultaniously on two machines.

Cheers,
Kevin

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Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Developer at the Kmud Project http://www.kmud.de/
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