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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Exclusive file access
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:25:05 +0200
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On 28.08.15 01:29, Pascal Obry wrote:
> Le vendredi 28 août 2015 à 01:16 +0200, Georg Bauhaus a écrit :
>> If in Windows a process cannot access a file that is in use,
>> I think that an effect of the normal reaction of Windows, isn't it?
>> So, a true Ada for Windows compiler might reflect this OS behavior.
>
> I think even on Windows a file can be opened with concurrent access.

Files "can" certainly be opened that way, through OS calls. But the GNAT RM
is, I think, just extending the RM's way of talking about internal file objects
in Ada programs. Is there a language that handles file locking and is *not*
involving external (to the language) services like the OS?