On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 11:30:35AM -0400, Jeff Trawick wrote: > Maybe APR_APPEND needs to be cheap/simple append a la stdio append: we > seek to the end of the file at open time and forget about it after > that. > > Then we need new APR_WRITE_AT_END or something better named which is > the expensive atomic append. For Unix, this enables O_APPEND on the > file and the kernel handles the details. For Win32, this enables > acquire-global-mutex + setfileptr + release-global-mutex prior to > every write. But then that has issues with non-related processes > sharing the mutex.
I like the idea, but yeah, to have a global mutex on windows you have to give it a filename (so the non-related processes can rendezvous on the same mutex). -aaron
