[2171] in java-interest
Re: Q's on File access API's in Pre-Beta
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Beck)
Tue Sep 26 15:40:09 1995
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 08:52 PDT
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: Bob Beck <rbk@ibeam.jf.intel.com> (by way of Bob Beck <rbk@ibeam.intel.com>)
At 04:14 PM 9/25/95 -0800, you wrote:
>> 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.
There should be something in the API, even if it's simple (e.g.,
non-mandatory lock of whole file). If all access to the file(s) are in a
single Java application, Java synchronization primitives should be
sufficient. However, often there are multiple instances of Java apps and/or
other processes talking to the files; something simple like "lock whole
file" should be enough. There are UNIX api's for this, and Win32 API's -
there must be some portable Java API for simple cases of file locking that
can be mapped to the expected platforms...
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