Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

[Robert Bonomi]

> From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org  Sat Nov 13 13:01:04 2010
> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:02:31 +0000
> From: Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk>
> To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??
>
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:48:40 -0600 (CST)
> Robert Bonomi <bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
>
> > Au Contraire,  WINDOWS *itself* forbids more than one application
> > from having the same file open for working on.
>
> Wrong. Windows *itself* doesn't care - lots of applications just don't
> specify FILE_SHARE_WRITE:

Windows -enforces- the restriction, which exists "by default".  Whether 
or not there is programatic 'work around' is irrelevant if the needed 
application fails to provide any way to twiddle that knob. 

This kind of file-locking _does_ make good sense -- 'sort of', that is.
A default mode where additional apps could access the file 'read only'
with a warning, would be arguably better.