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From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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Subject: Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org  Sat Nov 13 13:01:04 2010
> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:02:31 +0000
> From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
> To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??
>
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:48:40 -0600 (CST)
> Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
>
> > Au Contraire,  WINDOWS *itself* forbids more than one application
> > from having the same file open for working on.
>
> Wrong. Windows *itself* doesn't care - lots of applications just don't
> specify FILE_SHARE_WRITE:

Windows -enforces- the restriction, which exists "by default".  Whether 
or not there is programatic 'work around' is irrelevant if the needed 
application fails to provide any way to twiddle that knob. 

This kind of file-locking _does_ make good sense -- 'sort of', that is.
A default mode where additional apps could access the file 'read only'
with a warning, would be arguably better.