Doug Turner wrote:

> Should callers know that they are getting a shared copy?

IMO, no. Ideally we shield consumers from that fact.

>   There are tons of places where permissions of certain files are 
> assumed.  What about file locking?  

locking/sync'ing behind the scenes is the goal. this means we'd have to 
clean up all the code that hangs on to raw file pointers (our 
abstraction of them at least).

Jud


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