Am Dienstag, 14. November 2006 18:17 schrieb Bulat Ziganshin: > you mean that unix developers don't put any restrictions on sharing? :D
In general, no. You can e.g. even remove a file which is currently open (recommended pratice for temporary files) and even wilder things. :-) Depending on the *nix in question there are a whole bunch of locking possibilities: mandatory locks, non-mandatory locks, locks on regions of a given file, etc. In a nutshell: There is no "right" way of doing file locking, it heavily depends on the platform and the application in question. Therefore the Haskell report was free to choose one specific way, which is probably as good as any other. Perhaps future Haskell revisions should offer a more generic locking API to expose modern features, but that's a different story... Cheers, S.
