From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!G:cliff Newsgroups: net.cms Title: Re: CMS over Unix some days Article-I.D.: populi.196 Posted: Sat Jun 5 15:51:37 1982 Received: Sun Jun 6 00:51:18 1982 The property that one person changing a shared file can munge it up for anyone else using it is still a large part of the CMS philosophy. The only way around it is for the person with write permission on the file to be nice about the way he/she updates it. It is ok to create new files on the disk, and a simple RENAME does not hurt the other person (who doesn't see either the new file or the new name). So you make your update to a new file, quickly rename the old one to something like BLAH OLD1 and quickly rename the new one. This is how we update the system disks. Great, huh? You can imagine what happens to a disk that has two people writing on it... -Cliff Frost