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Re:Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the ro... by jbreckmckye on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @03:11PM (#20158540)
Surely my logging application would "own" the read-write handle, while my tail application merely "borrowed" a handle for read-only.
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Re:Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the ro... by heavenlyblue on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @05:00PM (#20159498)
How do those semantics differ from multi-writers which can all write in transactional blocks?
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