From: Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: File manipulations in Ada.Text_IO
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 02:34:03 GMT
Date: 2005-08-02T02:34:03+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vYAHe.783$I04.317@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <67kFmodka+Zb@eisner.encompasserve.org>
Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>
> But such a function for a non-wildcarded filename is always going
> to be susceptible to a race condition if the next step would be
> to open the file. The file might be deleted or created between
> the test and using the information gained from the test.
That's true in the general case, and something I've never encountered in
30 years of actual SW development, including software that was intended
to manipulate the same file from different applications running at the
same time.
--
Jeff Carter
"C's solution to this [variable-sized arrays] has real problems,
and people who are complaining about safety definitely have a point."
Dennis Ritchie
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-01 18:04 File manipulations in Ada.Text_IO Zheng Wang
2005-08-01 18:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-08-01 18:51 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-08-01 19:32 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-08-01 21:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-08-02 12:31 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-08-02 2:34 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2005-08-08 22:25 ` Robert A Duff
2005-08-09 2:46 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-08-02 20:18 ` Gautier Write-only
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