Craig Barkhouse wrote: > Assuming you don't want permissive sharing when doing actual > I/O (I argue above that you don't), I question the value of > changing mch_access() in the proposed way. The point of > mch_access() is to give you a predictor of what types of > access will likely work. If the access check tells you that > opening the file for write will work, but then when you > actually open it for write (using realistic sharing values) > it fails, isn't this worse than what we have now?
Although I haven't followed exactly what the OP is proposing, what Craig says is correct. Allowing multiple writers to the same file is only desirable under very planned circumstances which do NOT include a text editor writing to a file. John -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
