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Forwarded sessions problems.
Status:
RESOLVED: WONTFIX
Product:
Thunar-vfs
Component:
General

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Description xperience 2009-10-14 20:49:27 CEST
I have two mirror hosts with scripts to backup each other. My problem occurs as trivial race condition beetwen backup scripts and X11 forwarded thunar sessions.

I tried to copy file between two thunar instances on two hosts. As I wrote I have two mirror hosts so problem looked like this:
- changes to file a.txt on host A
- select and copy via thunar a.txt on host A
- paste via thunar on host B file a.txt to a up one level directory
- result was older file from host B copied to up one level directory on host B
- and then mirror scripts fired up and I have on two hosts two versions of a.txt older and newer

Sometimes that could lead to corruptions of files in some conditions, because paste command from thunar on host A issues command on host B like.

cp src/file dst/file 

where src/file and dst/file are on host B. 

I think copy-paste, cut-paste possibility should be prevented between two X11 forwarded instances, but that shouldn't cause problems to clipboard copy,cut,paste.
I think that's not only Xfce-thunar problem but other file managers too.
Comment 1 Nick Schermer editbugs 2014-12-03 09:19:25 CET
Close bug reports of archived products.

Bug #5870

Reported by:
xperience
Reported on: 2009-10-14
Last modified on: 2014-12-03

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Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann
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