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  2. File locking - Wikipedia

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    For example, a lock file might govern access to a set of related resources, such as several different files, directories, a group of disk partitions, or selected access to higher level protocols like servers or database connections. When using lock files, care must be taken to ensure that operations are atomic. To obtain a lock, the process ...

  3. Comparison of file synchronization software - Wikipedia

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    Commonly done by calculating and storing hash function digests of files to detect if two files with different names, edit dates, etc., have identical contents. Programs which do not support it, will behave as if the originally-named file/directory has been deleted and the newly named file/directory is new and transmit the "new" file again.

  4. Shadow Copy - Wikipedia

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    It can only create temporary snapshots, used for accessing stable on-disk version of files that are opened for editing (and therefore locked). This version of VSS is used by NTBackup . The creation of persistent snapshots (which remain available across reboots until specifically deleted) has been added in Windows Server 2003 , allowing up to ...

  5. autorun.inf - Wikipedia

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    Windows 2000, Windows ME or later Similar to open, but using file association information to run the application. The file name can therefore be an executable or a data file. It is the ShellExecuteEx function that is called by AutoRun. UseAutoPlay=1 Windows XP or later; drives of type DRIVE_CDROM Use AutoPlay rather than AutoRun with CD-ROMs.

  6. Windows Resource Protection - Wikipedia

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    Windows Resource Protection applies stricter measures to protect files. As a result, Windows File Protection is not available under Windows Vista. In order to replace any single protected file, Windows File Protection had to be disabled completely; Windows Resource Protection works on a per-item basis by setting ACLs.

  7. MacBinary - Wikipedia

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    The first incarnation of MacBinary was released in 1985. The standard was originally specified by Dennis Brothers (author of the terminal program MacTEP and later an Apple employee), BinHex author Yves Lempereur, PackIt author Harry Chesley, et al. then added support for MacBinary into BinHex 5.0, using MacBinary to combine the forks instead of his own methods.

  8. ResEdit - Wikipedia

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    ResEdit is a discontinued developer tool application for the Apple Macintosh, used to create and edit resources directly in the Mac's resource fork architecture. It was an alternative to tools such as REdit, [1] and the resource compiler Rez.

  9. File-system permissions - Wikipedia

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    When a file with setuid is executed, the resulting process will assume the effective user ID given to the owner class. This enables users to be treated temporarily as root (or another user). The set group ID, setgid, or SGID permission. When a file with setgid is executed, the resulting process will assume the group ID given to the group class ...