On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:10 AM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree that generally only one process will be accessing a "normal" > file at once. I think an editor is not a good example, as you say. > I'll say it again. It does not matter what we think. It matters what apps do. And some apps have multiple processes accessing one file. As to the wisdom of such access, there are many opinions :-) You really can not just rule things out because reasonable people don't do them. Unreasonable people write apps too. ron