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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: ada writing guide
Date: 2000/04/17
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Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> I do have one (minor) problem with the implementation, though. It looks
> like the exception file is read once at startup into an internal buffer.
> When someone adds an entry, it is their internal copy that is added to,
> then written to disk. If another user changed that file in the
> meantime, their changes are lost. This, combined with the advice for
> projects to keep one master file which everyone uses, could lead to a
> big mess.

Put the file under version control.  I'm amazed to see that there are
still projects with multiple developers which do not use it. ;)