On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 02:19:35PM +0200, Cees de Groot wrote:
> I'm not sure whether locking has already been implemented under  
> Squeak/Linux - but I know what the issues are, I know how to solve them, I  
> know how much time they'll take, so if anyone wants this feature for a  
> commercial project, I can implement and test them in under a day's work  
> (and so can anyone else who takes half a look at the code - but I'm just  
> shamelessly advertising myself as an Omnibase consultant, ok?). So that  
> shouldn't be a showstopper for a commercial project ;)

File locking for unix/linux is provided by OSProcess (see SqueakMap).
I understand that this has been successfully used with Omnibase, and
as far as I know the "availability" question is something to do with
the commercial versus non-commercial version of Omnibase or perhaps
some licensing issue.

Dave