Re: [Freedos-devel] File directory buffering and updates

2011-08-06 Thread dos386
Interesting ... but lacks details. AFAIK DOS has no good multitasking design so you can't do reliably file I/O (even more writes) from a TSR. - file not closed after update ? - file updated using lower level sector access ? - updating of the file fails while your FTP server is runnig (check after

[Freedos-devel] File directory buffering and updates

2011-07-10 Thread Michael B. Brutman
I have a report from a user who is getting stale directory data when running the mTCP FTP server. They are running a TSR in the background which is updating a file once a day. If they connect to the FTP server and look at the directory they will see the date and size of the file at the time