Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Dec 1999 18:10:18 +0100 | From | Jens Benecke <> | Subject | Opening Files |
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Hi,
I suppose there are race conditions (or whatever) to be taken care of when one process opens a file irregularly in append mode to write something, while another (probably at the same time) opens it in read-only mode to read the contents?
So far I haven't had any errors even when they do their stuff in the same second - but I haven't tried to provoke collisions either. Should I use lock files or something, or is it no problem if one of them only reads?
Thanks. :)
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