Martin Buchholz wrote:
:
When I first implemented this, keeping track of append mode throughout
various software layers was a burden. I guess the output streams
and channels will have to know whether they are in append mode or not.
FileOutputStream and FileChannelImpl used to know this before the
changes but you are right that will now impact right down to the code
that does the I/O. Furthermore, it impacts all platforms so careful
testing needed.
Perhaps it is easiest to implement append mode by using the current
code that uses FileOutputStream and extracts the HANDLE from that,
but at the last moment replacing the HANDLE with a new HANDLE
that has FILE_WRITE_DATA turned off before calling CreateProcess.
Assuming you are thinking of ReOpenFile then we would still need a
solution for Windows XP because that Win32 needs Windows Server 2003 or
newer.
-Alan.
