I'll post a request to David Gorisek. As far as concurrent access, I 
understand. However, I can't even create the DB repository unless I 
remove the explicit #halt statement in the method named below.

Thanks,
Daniel

On Mar 30, 2005, at 11:17 AM, Avi Bryant wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:53:29 -0500, Daniel Salama <dsalama at user.net> 
> wrote:
>> I went ahead a tried to give OmniBase a shot only to discover the
>> following:
>>
>>         "OmniBase is currently fully supported only on Win32 platform.
>>         For other OS's one has to fully implement file locking and 
>> file
>> sharing flags."
>>
>> This is from
>> ODBFileStream>>createOn:createMode:accessMode:shareMode:cacheMode:
>>
>> Is there a version of OmniBase that works in Linux?
>
> Yes, we have one, but it's not easily available yet.  The
> modifications were done to the commercial version of OmniBase, and so
> we can't distribute them.  Probably the best thing to do at this point
> would be to ask David Gorisek if he would release an up to date free
> version of OmniBase for Squeak (ie, remove the GC bits from the
> current commercial port).  Then we can merge our unix support into
> that.
>
> Note also that the file locking is only important for concurrent
> access, so you should be able to do some basic tests even without it.
>
> Avi