[Zope] Data.fs.lock?

[Toby Dickenson]

Windows definitely provides the right default behaviour here; in most cases
reading a file while someone else is writing to it is a great way to read
garbage. Its annoying for the minority of cases where it does make sense
(such as data.fs) that the Unix-like behaviour (ie, unsafe ;-) isn't
available to Python.

Is anyone from DC listening? would you accept a patch to FileStorage for
Windows that relied on an extension module?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Withers [mailto:chrisw@nipltd.com]
> Sent: 28 June 2000 12:04
> To: tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com
> Cc: addyd@unk.edu; zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Data.fs.lock?
> 
> 
> Toby Dickenson wrote:
> > It's definitely normal, and arguably a problem.
> 
> > net stop zope
> > copy c:/zope/var/data.fs c:/zope/var/backupdata.fs
> > net start zope
> 
> I'd say it's definitely a problem if you have to stop zope to do a
> backup :(
> 
> But then, I'd say it's a problem running (Zope on) Windows in a
> production environment ;-)
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Chris
>