On 2013-03-27 11:41 AM, Martin Storsjö wrote:
> I don't see the part saying that you must lock bytes if using this, only 
> that you can, if you want to.

Seems like common sense and best practice to not let something else write
to the file while we are.

> IIRC I remember reading someone discussing this, and this patch was the 
> fix for making sure that you can read the output file while it still is 
> being written. Perhaps not working 100% perfectly, but still probably 
> better than not letting anybody even open that file at all.

Indeed. _locking should probably be added though, even if in a later patch.
It doesn't look too hard, and perhaps I will add it after this goes in.

- Derek
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