11 Jan
2005
11 Jan
'05
11:43 a.m.
On 11 January 2005 14:15, Gracjan Polak wrote:
Simon Marlow wrote:
There's a big lock on File. If you want to do truly concurrent reading, > you can make multiple FileInputStreams, each of which has its own file > descriptor (the Unix implementation uses dup(2)).
Original and descriptor returned by dup or dup2 share file pointer.
*blink* You're right! Serves me right for assuming that POSIX would have sensible semantics. Perhaps this API isn't implementable, in its current state. Cheers, Simon