Implementations of File Locking Mechanisms, Linux and Windows

Author

Xoxa, Nevila ; Mehilli, Aldiger ; Tafa, Igli ; Fejzaj, Julian

fYear

2015

fDate

13-15 April 2015

Firstpage

756

Lastpage

757

Abstract

The world of Operating Systems has evolved a lot, especially these late years, mainly due to technology in hardware, but also because of ever growing user and market requirements. Anyway, some basic concepts and implementations are still stuck around like they´re irreplaceable. File locking is one of them. The point is, why in a range of more than 15 years, file locking mechanisms have little or not at all evolved, while the technology in general or OS-s particularly have changed a lot? That´s why we´ll discuss File locking mechanisms in Windows and Linux, and possibly find a better solution combining Linux Advisory Locking and Windows Mandatory Locking. The goal is to make this mechanism robust, and more important: cross-OS portable.

Keywords

Linux; file organisation; Linux advisory locking; Windows mandatory locking; cross-OS portable; file locking mechanism; operating systems; Concurrent computing; File systems; Instruction sets; Java; Kernel; Linux; Advisory Locking; Concurrent File Access; File-Locking mechanism; JVM-to-native locking; Mandatory Locking; Thread-level file-locking; cross-OS locking mechanism; portable locking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology - New Generations (ITNG), 2015 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-8827-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITNG.2015.130

Filename

7113569