Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:26:38 +0200 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: Lockless file reading |
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On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Nagendra Singh Tomar wrote:
> If the writer does not want the reader to read old data why does'nt it > truncate the file and start writing from the begining every time.
To give you some background: Timo wants to store cache data in these lockless. When these caches are truncated, they can be dropped altogether, but the application's performance will drop drastically.
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