On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:11 AM, Baruch Burstein <bmburst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> To the best of my knowledge, Dropbox is not a "virtual" filesystem. It is >> a regular folder in the regular filesystem that is managed by the OS. The >> only "special" thing about it is that Dropbox registers with the OS to be >> notified of changes to this folder, and then syncs these changes, using >> regular file read/write mechanisms supplied by the filesystem/OS. >> >> > If some other process (like Dropbox) writes to an SQLite database file, or > to an SQLite journal file, while SQLite is also using that file, that can > lead to severe problems. I think that is the point. > Doesn't the OS prevent 2 process from writing to the same file simultaneously? -- ˙uʍop-ǝpısdn sı ɹoʇıuoɯ ɹnoʎ 'sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ɟı
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