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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:37:30 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: _createnew
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Hello.

Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> 
> 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.

Which potential race condition? Do you mean the one I describe in this mail
(the last one listed for _creatnew on the 2.04 status page):

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mail-archives/browse.cgi?p=djgpp-workers/2002/04/05/08:00:44

Or is there another one?

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]