I am trying to avoid locking the access to file for multiple readers
can be multi concurrent readers and it will be a bottleneck.
I've created a multi threaded test for it and it seems to work fine,
but I am not still not confident about it. I was hoping to find some
documentation about it which specifies the behavior.

On Dec 20, 11:40 pm, Christian Catchpole <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Can you even get a second lock on a file that way?  Sounds dangerous.
> I would just create a some kind of service that each Thread can access
> that will synchronise disk access down to one RandomAccessFile.
>
> On Dec 21, 2:48 am, Eitan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I want to use a file in a single process with single writer or multi
> > readers mutual exclusion, for that purpose I use number of
> > RandomAccessFile instances over the same file which are open in read
> > mode and are used concurrently. I also have a single RandomAccessFile
> > open in "rw" mode which updates the file (not when it is being
> > actively read).
> > I do not close the Random Access File handles at any point.
>
> > I wanted to know if the data which is being written to the file with
> > the RandomAccessFile in rw mode will always be visible to the readers
> > after the the write is complete?
> > (I am not using rws mode for performance issues, only for these
> > readers which are in the same process).
>
> > Thanks
> > Eitan

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