Joey K Tuttle wrote:
I want to go on record (again) saying that I think the
documented behavior of passing unrestricted references
when a noun names a mapped file is very dangerous. It
is very easy for a bug (say a typo) to lead to the
destruction of an entire existing database that may be
in use by others, or impossible to recreate.
Further, your example shows yet another kind of side
effect that seems to me to be very bad practice if not
outright pernicious - my hope is that your example will
persuade jsoftware to reconsider (and change) the local
references of mapped names to be READ-ONLY.
Doesn't map_jmf_ already has an option to set the file readonly?
NB. [type [,trailing_shape]] map name;filename [;sharename;ro]
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regards,
bill
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