I've a script which forks and echo's [appends] multiple long lines to one plain text file. some of the multiple threads also yank lines from the same plain text file. this file is now approx 31M and has about 105000 lines ( growing.) i've been doing this for years now, and have seen nothing go wrong so far. (yay!)
my question is rather theoretical - what can go wrong if multiple processes are writing to the same file at multiple instances? i've read elsewhere, that the kernel takes care of this stuff. or is it that i could just not cause finitely concurrent writes to the file and have not seen a corrupt line just by luck? hope this question make sense. many thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimk7uodzji6oevybltkmpergadilajlk1yf3...@mail.gmail.com
