On 7 Jan 2008, at 16:29, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:59:18PM +0000, Adrian Howard wrote:
Actually, I've had some nasty bugs in the past with prints failing
with dodgy NFS mounts. Caused some important data to go away. Not my
code fortunately :-)
In these circumstances print failed but the close on the file did not?
[snip]
To be honest I can't really remember. It was back in the days of
SunOS and I was busy cursing many other things :-) However it doesn't
really matter since...
[snip]
Then again, close time might be too late for the application you're
describing, if it is holding files open for long periods.
This was the situation.
Adrian
