Hi, Just found this in my inbox.
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 12:18 +0200, Andreas Zeidler wrote: > On Oct 14, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Christian Theune wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 10:09 -0500, Alan Runyan wrote: > >> Why must the file be closed before calling consumeFile? > >> > >> And would you go as far as saying that if you *do not close* the file > >> before calling consumeFile - all bets are off. You are not using > >> Blob > >> as intended? > > > > You're definitely not going to be able to work on Windows, which is > > the > > source of the requirements to close handles before moving/deleting > > files. > > alan and i hit that point when trying to avoid copying the uploaded > data before handing it to `consumeFile` and were wondering if the > requirement was only necessary because of that or if perhaps other > unexpected things would creep up later. so, would you say it's > generally okay to leave the file open (until the end of the request) > on a posix system? Yeah, posix systems generally allow you to operate on the file(name) while open file handles are still referencing it. -- Christian Theune · c...@gocept.com gocept gmbh & co. kg · forsterstraße 29 · 06112 halle (saale) · germany http://gocept.com · tel +49 345 1229889 7 · fax +49 345 1229889 1 Zope and Plone consulting and development
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