Significance of .GNUstepUDlock

[Ravindra]

Hi,

 

We have an application developed using GNUStep. It reads defaults at startup. We observed that there is a GNUstep file that gets created at /GNUstep named .GNUstepUDlock that is preventing other instances of our application from starting up till that file exists. Apparently what we thought was, this file is created to protect the defaults from being referenced at certain times and does not always get removed. We have seen this behavior most often when the application was started, and quickly stopped repeatedly. The file will go away on its own after about 1 minute. At that time our application reads defaults properly and functions properly. Because of the presence of this file for about a minute, we are not able to start several instances of that application quickly.

 

So my question is :

 

What is the purpose of this file and whether there is any way to stop it from being created. If file is required to be created is it possible to by pass this file access, so that other instances of the application work free.

 

Thanks,

Ravindra.