Re: Exception handling?
"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
news:h00526hra3tc9it2ptporviio92hpqagvs@4ax.com...
This is not the case any more with .NET. The StreamWriter constructor:
StreamWriter(string filename, bool Append)
opens the file in FileShare.Read mode only.
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How do you append if it isn't opened in Write mode? Did somebody
perhaps misread the
specifications?
FileShare mode for other thread/process instances. Not the current
thread instance.
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File sharing does not apply to threads. If you open a file "exclusive",
the handle can be
used in any thread.
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100% of the people who need to append need to write to the file. Sounds
like another
"summer intern" design.
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Joe, StreamWriter opens the file with Write access (duh, it is called
Writer!) and prevents other processes from simultaneously writing to it by
using Fileshare::Read (IOW, other processes can only open file for reading,
not writing). Isn't this exactly what you want and expect?
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