On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:46:17PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > We shouldn't have to call readonly a lot anyway. The only place where > I think it is "needed" is for informing the user that the loaded file > is read only. For writing, we should just try to write.. and fail if > we cannot do so.
Yep. Really we're informing them "this file was at least one read only at some point, so it might be why", but I agree it's not worthwhile to use a race-free interface. john
