There is also the legal requirements of file retention, privacy concerns of data within the file, etc. Bill Fairchild ----- Original Message -----
From: "John McKown" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 9:07:20 PM Subject: A PC programmer who understands! Trivial example: it used to be just "okay, write a file here." Now I'm worrying about permissions, locking, concurrency, atomic operations, indirection/frameworks, different file systems, number of files in a directory, predictable temp file names, the quality of randomness in my PRNG, power shortages in the middle of any operation, an understandable API for what I'm doing, proper documentation, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
