[Vm-dev] [squeak-dev] opening a write-only file

[tim Rowledge]

On 06-06-2014, at 5:05 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 04:53:24PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
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>> On 06-06-2014, at 11:25 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> IMO, some time we should replace the FilePlugin.  The directory interface sucks.   Buffering sucks.  We should go the VW route of having proper buffered files above the raw system calls (ReadFile & WriteFile in win32/64, read & write in unix et al).
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>> Oh please. Almost everything about the current, ancient, horrible filesystem code is ancient and horrible. I?ts at least a decade past time it was replaced.
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> Should I bring this old chestnut back to life?
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>  http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2274
I think it’s a decent start on the problem. We should consider the stuff Colin did a while back too. It really would be nice to have code that avoids the annoyance of finding strings  with fixed / or \ chars buried in there.

tim
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