On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:20 PM, ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
I just meant it was a bad example, not that the case of an editor doing something can or should be ruled out.
