On 2019-06-10, at 22:45:37, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote: > > > But the whole point is that I may want to issue XEDIT subcommands > affecting lines beyond the target while the pipeline is running. > That sort of concurrency is unlikely to be supported; it's akin to expecting two different users to be able to edit the same SFS member concurrently, with integrity.
But a colleague once told me of an SDS/Xerox/Sigma system on which text files were a sort of KSDS with the line numbers as keys. On such a system, concurrent edits should have been as possible as concurrent updates to an RDB with integrity. -- gil
