A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...

Imagine working on a key document in Google Drive, only to find out later that someone made unwanted changes. To prevent this ...

When a shared file gets locked for editing, real-time collaboration gets affected as users cannot open or comment on the file. One known reason for this error is dual ...

I'm trying to control concurrent access to a file in a Win32 application. The file is a SQLite database, and on Windows SQLite opens files via CreateFile() with FILE_SHARE_READ and FILE_SHARE_WRITE ...

Maybe there was a time when you wanted to lock away certain pages in a PDF, but you didn’t have the tools to get it done. Well, those days are over due to the release of an interesting software known ...