Saturday December 11 1993 07:55, david nugent wrote to Jason Lingohr:


 >> I/O with a shared file basically defeats the whole purpose of
 >> file-sharing - at any one time the physical file is not 100%
 >> up to date with high-level, which, I guess makes sense....
 >> sigh.

 dn> No, it makes no sense at all. I had this argument with Microsoft tech
 dn> support once, prior their library supplying a streams based fopen in
 dn> _fsopen() in C6.

Hmm, ok then!

 dn> This is true only of files accessed randomly, usually record-based systems

Didn't know that, seems odd, but I'll take your word for it...

 dn> The strange part is of course that UNIX programmers have been using shared
 dn> file access via stdio streams for years. All files are sharable - and the
 dn> only file locking system available is a cooperative one (no physical
 dn> locking).

Yeah, I knew this.  Pity other O/S's don't get implemented as well as Unix eh?? ;-)



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