>
>This ought to always give a consistant snapshot of the file to
>whomever opens it.
>
I think Tom has previously stated that there are technical reasons not to
do IO in signal handlers, and I have philosophical problems with
performance monitors that ask 50 backends to do file IO. I really do think
shared memory is TWTG.
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