16.08.2011 17:05 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Dear Aunt TUAW: What are those lockfiles?

Dear Aunt TUAW, With Lion, I'm seeing a lot of plist.lockfile in my Preferences folder. I'm assuming the "lockfile" business has to do with the new autosave stuff in Lion, but why would that apply to a preference file? Is this a bug or a feature? Your loving nephew, Darren Dear Darren, Feature. Historically, lock files have restricted file access to one application at a time. Auntie has no reason to think that Lion's use of this concept differs. A lock file prevents a second edit from being applied concurrently, preserving information integrity. Access control is especially important when competing processes might want

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