From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <200301192132.h0JLWrS25230@brother.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: _createnew
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:32:53 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <3E2AEE88.311F6390@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> from "Richard Dawe" at Jan 19, 2003 06:29:28 PM
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According to Richard Dawe:
> Martin Stromberg wrote:
> > _creatnew does not honour the flags passed to it - it always opens it
> > read-write mode
> > If we really think we should do something, how about this for
> > implementation: set some fd_props to say that only reading is allowed
> > (and if somebody reads there's nothing to read as it's empty).
> 
> I'm not sure I like that. Wouldn't it be better (more consistent) to rely on
> DOS to maintain this information?

Yes, if possible. But remember the potential race condition.


Right,

						MartinS