24 Oct
2005
24 Oct
'05
14:45
Hi, On Monday 24 October 2005 07:18, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Jason,
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In particular, while the most common case in Windows will preclude readers when there is a writer (as stated there) but on Unix systems use of file locking is not common and only the file's permissions govern access, regardless of whether another program has the file open for read, write or both.
But on both Windows and Linux, the opposite is true.
Oops. That doesn't really make much sense, does it? What I meant to say, and apparently did not finish writing, is that on both Windows and Linux, the common case (exclusive access on Windows and no exclusion on Unix) can be reversed on both systems if the programs first accessing the file choose to do so. Randall Schulz