Re: [boost] [afio] Formal review of Boost.AFIO

Subject: Re: [boost] [afio] Formal review of Boost.AFIO
From: Giovanni Piero Deretta (gpderetta_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-08-31 15:24:13

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Vladimir Prus <vladimir.prus_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 31-Aug-15 7:33 PM, Niall Douglas wrote:
>>
>>>
>> AFIO combined with anything not speaking AFIO is not supported, nor
>> will be. You will probably find this unreasonable and not useful, but
>> such are the differences between the platforms in file system any
>> additional abstraction is not practically useful.
>
>
> Sorry, are you saying that AFIO cannot work if other programs are touching
> the same files/directories? How that is potentially useful? If I control
> all parties that write to a particular tree, I can use either
> boost.interprocess,
> or boost.thread, to avoid all and every conflict at the filesystem locking.
>

that's very troubling. Neal, can you clarify what are the guarantees?
Is it just file locking that is unreliable or what else?

-- gpd