On 04/25/2011 10:20 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > From the point of view of the programmer coding to the API (Pipelines > in this context), it may well be satisfactory "if it hides the fact."
Right, I'm much more interested in *MY* not having to read and alter the existing record than in what some system-level call has to do--though of course saving real resources never hurts either! > block (except for filemode number 6, and that's very special purpose, > and has severe restrictions that I'd call bugs). You've piqued my curiosity. I've used mode 6 for decades to avoid errors in reading and writing simultaneously. Am I just accepting quirks you don't, or have I missed some restrictions? ¬R
