Re: How to tell if a file is busy?
Re: How to tell if a file is busy?
- Subject: Re: How to tell if a file is busy?
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:17:09 -0700
On 9/26/01 11:49 PM, Chris Nebel <email@hidden> wrote:
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The difficulty, as Chris points out, is that some applications don't leave
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the
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disk file open while the document is "open". The file system is telling the
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truth -- the file itself is not busy, and anyone is free to read from or
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write
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to it, but the application that opened the file earlier may stomp on your
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changes later.
Isn't this true of most memory-resident applications (the original
MacWrite, for instance) that load the entire file into RAM, and write
back to disk when saving the file?
Of course with single-user, single-application OSs, like the original Mac
OS, this isn't a problem.
--Michelle
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