Unix VM file locking?

Colin Putney cputney at wiresong.ca
Sat Jan 26 00:47:30 UTC 2008


On 25-Jan-08, at 10:38 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> etc. Is there an easy way to patch the Unix file code to avoid this,  
> e.g., behave like Windows in such that it would disallow opening the  
> same file for multiple writes?

I've been bitten by this as well, but in reverse. Code that works  
great on Unix is totally broken on Windows because you can't open the  
same file for writing twice.

Colin



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