Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Validation error hack and question (was: Re/Write Error) Message-ID: <13759@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 10 Aug 90 21:14:54 GMT References: <290.26B9C50B@afitamy.fidonet.org> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 20 In article Chuck.Phillips@FtCollins.NCR.COM (Chuck.Phillips) writes: >Question for the OS/disk experts: Is it possible for an AmigaOS program to >open a file for writing and then exit _normally_ (no guru or power failure) >without closing the file, possibly creating a validation error? (Exclude >programs directly accessing the disk device) Sure, those could certainly cause validation to be needed (but no problems are likely to result in most cases). >Question for C=: If this is possible, are there plans to correct this in a >future release? It would be hard, since we don't know why the file was left open, even if we tracked what files a process opens. Maybe the FH was passed to another process. -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com BIX: rjesup Common phrase heard at Amiga Devcon '89: "It's in there!"