I just stumbled across two old posts by Jeff Roberson: http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/20707.html http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/21014.html
They relate to file IO semantics across processes, and while it's not directly relevant to this discussion, certainly anyone interested in such low level details would enjoy those posts. -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia
