Proposal: Stop enforcing single-writer-multi-reader file access

[Johan Tibell]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:
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>> I propose that we remove all the automatic locking from the libraries,
>> and let the user do any locking that they wish to do themselves.
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> +50
>

+1. In general I don't like when low-level libraries try to do too many
smart things behind my back. That normally ends up in me having to write my
own version of the library without those smarts.

-- Johan
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