RE:changing macro on disk while it is r

From: Pasha Murat (murat@cdfsga.fnal.gov)
Date: Thu Dec 10 1998 - 19:26:38 MET 

Tomasz Motylewski writes:
 > On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Valery Fine wrote:
 > 
 > >    I think this can be case only under UNIX (if there are others
 > > please correct me), no other OS allows write access to the open file 
 > > for another application with no special permit.
 > 
 > So may be CINT/ROOT should lock the file? Should be possible on most of the
 > platforms ROOT is ported to.
 > 
	I'd also ask if it is possible for CINT (ROOTCINT) to create it's own
	temporary copy(ies) of the loaded macro(s) and to keep them on $TMPDIR, 
	for example. This would allow a user to change his macro while his 
	interactive job is running.
							-pasha

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