How do I unlock a file ? / SOLVED !

[Ed Greshko]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 07:52 +0800, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
> 
>> Hi and how do I address you correctly:
>> Smoot or Carl-Mitchell ?
> 
> Smoot is fine. That is my middle name.  Carl-Mitchell is my last name.
>> Thanks a lot for your efforts and explanations !
>> Yes, ls -a showed me that single file with a "dot = hidden" !! ;-)
> 
> You are welcome.
> 
>> I assumed that, with lock, the file may have a special thumb to keep it
>> (b)lock(ed) !?
> 
> Possibly, but in most cases Unix or Linux systems do not put hard locks
> on files.  Locking is generally advisory.
> 

I hope everyone realizes that a file with a .lock extension is not "locked" 
in programmatic sense.  It is simply a file that an application has created 
to tell itself that "something" is locked and it should do "something". 
Kind of a lazy man's lock.


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