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Re: Files



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Harpreet Singh (RBIN/DCA-NMP) forced the electrons to say:
> When a file is opened for reading by one program, can the same file be
> opened for reading by another program at the same time.

Why not? You can always do less <somefile> and more <thesamefile>

> And when this file is opened for reading by one program, can the same file
> be opened for writing or updation by another program at the same time.

Again, why not? I do a tail -f /var/log/messages while I am trying
something exotic - and syslog keeps logging without problems.

Binand

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