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Re: patch to make Win32 file locking work like POSIX -- objections?
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- Cc: Adam Megacz <patches at lists dot megacz dot com>, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 14 Mar 2002 22:26:37 -0700
- Subject: Re: patch to make Win32 file locking work like POSIX -- objections?
- References: <86ofhqblqr.fsf@megacz.com> <3C916857.4030701@waitaki.otago.ac.nz>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> writes:
Adam> The following patch disables Win32's automatic file locking,
Adam> making it work the way POSIX file locking works ("off by
Adam> default").
Bryce> Do the other Java VMs disable the locking on Windows? If so,
Bryce> and this patch is bringing gcj into line with that behaviour,
Bryce> then I think this is fine.
Sounds good. And it sounds like a general rule: Adam, I can't speak
for others, but I pretty much rely on your judgement for
Win32-specific code. Compatibility can sometimes be an overriding
factor. It's certainly something worth looking at before making
decisions.
Tom