Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl::SetFileInfo Help (fwd)

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 9.47 7/3/97, Mark Manning/Muniz Eng. wrote:
>Let's suppose that the OPEN statement opens an I/O
>channel.  Ok - not too hard to do.
>
>Let's suppose that the OPEN statement tells the Mac System
>to provide an exclusive lock on the file so no one else can
>talk to the file.
>
>Let's suppose that the SetFileInfo command also opens an
>I/O channel.
>
>Let's also suppose that the SetFileInfo command also
>attempts to open the "exclusive lock" file.
>
>Then SetFileInfo would not be able to open the file until
>the file had been closed.

Sure.  But that has nothing to do with the file not being there immediately
after the open() statement.

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