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Re: Save file exclusively locked when displaying?

On 8/2/21 10:19 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:
Why know why? To decide if you can still view it and not lock it?

Idle curiosity, mostly.

If it didn't lock it, it would freak me out if the contents of
DSPSAVF suddenly changed while I was paging through it.

Well, actually, no. That's not valid at all.

A save file (or any file / part of a file) should be locked when it's
being updated, not when it's being viewed.

So saving to a save file should lock the object exclusively ... and
error out if it can't get the exclusive lock.

Displaying, or reading (in the case of a transfer), should NOT lock a
save file because it's not being changed.

david



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