[Zope] Seperate Development ...

[Jens Vagelpohl]

i don't know anything about windows, i just don't use it. i know that 
during normal operation zope does not open and close the file willy-nilly.
  it gets opened on startup and closed on shutdown. if the shutdown happens 
in an orderly fashion all unwritten records get flushed to the file system 
correctly.

jens


On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 09:40 , dman wrote:

> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:08:47AM -0400, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> | incomplete records that did not get flushed to the file system on the
> | source side and on the target size you would be pulling an existing 
> Data.fs
> | out from under a running server and replace it with something new. i 
> have
> | seen whole Data.fs getting truncated to zero content that way.
>
> Have you seen this on windows?  Does zope open and close the Data.fs
> frequently?  The reason I ask is because windows has a crappy way of
> keeping track of open files.  It uses the name, and thus disallows any
> modification of an open file.  That's one reason it is so reboot-happy
> and why you shouldn't have programs running when you run an installer.
> (for an example scenario, try running 'bash.exe' and upgrading
> libcygwin1.dll)  The effect is that, if zope keeps Data.fs open, then
> you have to stop zope anyways to do anything to the file.
>
> -D
>
>