[boost] Re: filesystem feature request

2003-08-11 Thread Craig Henderson
"Pavel Vozenilek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: "David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I need the ability to do interprocess synchronization through file > > locking, c.f. Java.File.createNewFile and Java.File.deleteOnExit: > ... > > On Posix, the first one

[boost] Re: filesystem feature request

2003-08-09 Thread Pavel Vozenilek
From: "David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I need the ability to do interprocess synchronization through file > locking, c.f. Java.File.createNewFile and Java.File.deleteOnExit: ... > On Posix, the first one would be done with > open(..., O_CREAT | O_EXCL) > > and the second, I suppose, would

Re: [boost] Re: filesystem feature request: file versioning

2003-01-04 Thread Beman Dawes
At 04:03 AM 1/3/2003, Daniel Yerushalmi wrote: >On the windows NTFS file system versioning can be simulated by multiple >data >stream per file (http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs-multiple.htm) (the file name is >:stream name). >You can save highest version number in a seperate stream that can be locked >du

[boost] Re: filesystem feature request: file versioning

2003-01-03 Thread Daniel Yerushalmi
On the windows NTFS file system versioning can be simulated by multiple data stream per file (http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs-multiple.htm) (the file name is :stream name). You can save highest version number in a seperate stream that can be locked during access (each stream in a file can be locked indivi

[boost] Re: filesystem feature request: temporary path and files

2003-01-02 Thread Alberto Barbati
Thomas Witt wrote: Hi Alberto, Alberto Barbati wrote: Hi, first of all, I want to thank Beman Dawes and all others that contributed with the design and development of the Filesystem library. It's a wonderful piece of work. I just would like to propose a couple of additions that I believe ar