Hi!
Most likely, this will baffle MapInfo and result in unpredictable behaviour.
Also, the ticket referred to claims that QGIS ignores read-only locks on files.
Which in itself is a rather surprising bit of information if true.

Hälsning / Regards
Mats.E

Skickat från min / Sent from my iPad, Ursäkta att jag är kortfattad / Excuse my 
brevity. 

> 12 apr. 2016 kl. 13:12 skrev Bo Victor Thomsen <bo.victor.thom...@gmail.com>:
> 
> Claus -
> 
> (Not tested, just a suggestion) Try to make all the files used for a MapInfo 
> layer (.tab, .id, .dat. map..) read-only for the QGIS users.
> 
> QGIS 2.14 is using a new version of GDAL/OGR (2.0) to read and write tab 
> files. This new version of GDAL/OGR is is probably locking the MapInfo files 
> with a file lock because it prepares the files for update operations. Updates 
> was not possible for earlier versions of GDAL/OGR.
> 
> If you set the read-only attribute on the MapInfo files, QGIS (aka the 
> GDAL/OGR subsystem) might not generate the file lock that makes it impossible 
> for MapInfo to read the files.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Bo Victor Thomsen
> Municipality of Frederikssund, Denmark
> 
> 
>> Den 12-04-2016 kl. 12:57 skrev Claus Sørensen:
>> with QGIS and MapInfo coexistence.
>> I have no problems opening the same MapInfo tab file (native mapinfo 7.8 
>> format) from 2 pc's ru
> 
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