[2139] in java-interest
Re: Q's on File access API's in Pre-Beta
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Brown)
Tue Sep 26 01:12:33 1995
To: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 20:02:27 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: rbk@ibeam.jf.intel.com, java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
In-Reply-To: <Roam.1.2.812070868.21725.avh@acorn> from "Arthur van Hoff" at Sep 25, 95 04:14:28 pm
From: phil@bolthole.com (Philip Brown)
[ Arthur van Hoff writes ]
>
> > 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.
Well, if you only worry about locking files from other java threads, then
what about, in absence of true file locking system calls, to
have a filelock database maintained by the runtime?
This would then require either that only one runtime be active at once,
or that there be some method of interprocess communication.
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