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2 Avoiding Write Collisions in Tahoe
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5 Tahoe does not provide locking of the mutable files and directories.
6 If there is more than one simultaneous attempt to change a mutable file
7 or directory, then an <cite>UncoordinatedWriteError</p> will result.
8 This might, in rare cases, cause the file or directory contents to be
9 accidentally deleted. The user is expected to ensure that there is at
10 most one outstanding write or update request for a given file or
11 directory at a time. One convenient way to accomplish this is to make
12 a different file or directory for each person or process which wants to