From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c72c8726f7de6c9b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: File manipulations in Ada.Text_IO References: <1122919474.611248.151950@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <42ee677a$0$11756$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <67kFmodka+Zb@eisner.encompasserve.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 02:46:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.240.114.157 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1123555570 4.240.114.157 (Mon, 08 Aug 2005 19:46:10 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 19:46:10 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4042 Date: 2005-08-09T02:46:10+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > > How do you know? ;-) I mean, if somebody writes code that contains > such a race condition, and their customer trips over it once in a while, > the programmer might never find out about it. This was internal SW, so I would have found out. I was concerned about what might happen, so I included logging to see how often it happened and what actually occurred when it did. After a year of use, there were no reports of conflicts, so I took the logging out. There might have been race conditions in the logging. Conflicts might have started happening left and right after I took the logging out. At least I had a warm fuzzy feeling. -- Jeff Carter "Whatever it is, I'm against it." Horse Feathers 46