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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some ideas for KS/WB 1.3
Message-ID: <8801251900.AA00551@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 25 Jan 88 19:00:20 GMT
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: Make "MODE_OLDFILE" read-only, even if this will certainly
: break lots of programs. It is the only function holding a
: shared read-lock on a file, that can be written to! (Try
: it yourself: several applications can open a single file
: with READONLY and ALL OF THEM can write to it at the same
: time!) This is probably a holdover from pre-1.2 when there
: was no "MODE_READWRITE". 1.3 should enforce the synonym
: "MODE_READONLY"!

	It will break just about every program in existance.  I would also
like to point out that some of us may *want* to have several programs writing
the same file at the same time, or one program writing while another is 
reading.  A better thing to do would be to add a new mode that is READ with
an exclusive lock.

				-Matt