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Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile

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From Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile
Date Sat, 5 Nov 2011 13:25:52 -0700 (PDT)
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Jan Burse wrote:
> Lew schrieb:
> > This has been a very interesting question and
>  > ensuing thread.  I've seen this sort of multiple
>  > interaction (conflict) of resource clients a couple
>  > of times but most of those cases were unintentional
>  > and considered bugs.
> 
> If you open the raf with mode "r" no such issues
> pertain. If you open the raf with mode "rw" then
> of course you have an update problem if multiple
> threads access the raf, not to speak what happens
> accross processes.

Not true.  Two clients reading from the same file descriptor interact with each other as you yourself have discussed extensively upthread.

This isn't about update of the file, it's about update of the descriptor.  It's also not about threads at all.

> But the channel also offers locks. You can even
> parameterize them by ranges. And they are even
> synchronized accross processes. It happens that I
> have used the locks for byte based access, but I
> guess they are also useful when a character reader/
> write is placed on the byte stream.

Interesting but not relevant to my point.

-- 
Lew

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Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-03 19:18 +0100
  Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-11-03 14:32 -0500
    Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-03 20:50 +0100
      Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-03 13:52 -0700
        Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-03 23:13 +0100
        Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-11-03 16:17 -0700
      Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-03 13:58 -0700
      Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-03 20:40 -0400
        Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-04 02:28 +0100
          Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-04 03:06 +0100
            Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-04 08:05 -0400
              Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-04 16:12 +0100
        Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2011-11-04 16:54 +0000
  Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-03 23:24 +0100
  Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-03 20:14 -0400
  Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-03 21:56 -0700
    [OT] Conspiracy theories are BS (Was: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile) Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 10:50 -0700
      Re: [OT] Conspiracy theories are BS (Was: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-04 21:07 -0400
      Re: [OT] Conspiracy theories are BS (Was: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile) Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-05 20:21 -0700
      Re: [OT] Conspiracy theories are BS (Was: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile) Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-05 20:24 -0700
        Re: [OT] Conspiracy theories are BS (Was: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile) Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-06 10:36 +0100
      Re: [OT] Conspiracy theories are BS (Was: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile) Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-11-06 14:16 -0600
  Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2011-11-05 16:51 +0200
    Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-05 16:27 +0100
      Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-05 10:03 -0700
        Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-05 19:37 +0100
          Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-05 13:25 -0700
        Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-05 19:47 +0100
        Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-05 19:56 +0100
          Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-05 13:29 -0700
            Re: Piggypack Encoding/Decoding on RandomAccessFile Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-11-06 10:42 +0100

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