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Re: Q's on File access API's in Pre-Beta
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Mon Sep 25 21:35:01 1995
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 16:14:28 -0800 (PDT)
From: Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Bob Beck <rbk@ibeam.jf.intel.com>
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi Bob,
> In browsing the pre-beta API pages, it looks like some of the issues I've
> had with alpha3 haven't been addressed:
>
> 1) No way to delete a file
> 2) RandomAccessFile doesn't have a getFD() method (FileInputStream
> does, though)
Thanks for pointing this out. I'll try to make sure they get added. I'm not
sure how you
> 3) There doesn't appear to be any API for locking files or portions
> of files
I'm not sure how we implement this in a platform independent way.
> If these are there, please let me know (I'm running on NT, thus can't use
> the pre-beta). If these aren't there, when will they (or some such support)
> - it'll be hard to argue general purpose programs can be written in Java
> without these.
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff
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