Well, so indeed, the temporary file solution seems a good one, then. -- laurent
2009/2/15 James Reeves <weavejes...@googlemail.com> > > On Feb 14, 10:58 pm, Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You could maybe solve the read problem by also embedding, in the name of > the > > file, its intended content size ? > > That solves the read problem, but not the conflicting write problem. > It also seems harder than using a temporary file. > > > If the file is immutable, I don't understand why you could have > concurrency > > regarding the act of writing ? > > Because two threads may attempt to save the same bit of data at the > same time. As the disk its saving to may be RAIDed, or even > distributed, I don't want to limit all file writing to a single > thread. I want to make it possible for one thread to write "a" whilst > the other writes "b". > > - James > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
