From: jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: A Text_IO question I never dared to ask...
Date: 1996/07/03
Date: 1996-07-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DtzGJA.22@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4rac4g$pc5@eri2.erinet.com
James E. Hopper (jhopper@erinet.com) wrote:
: Why is there no record (or even file) locking in Text_IO ???
: the basic stdIO routines used by text_io
: are all using lock, unlock calls around them.
Yes, task locks. To make sure the IO routines are thread-safe.
However, this is something different from file locking, which is there to
prevent other processes to access/change the external file content behind
your back.
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1996-07-01 0:00 A Text_IO question I never dared to ask Jerry van Dijk
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