io interleaving

[Raimo Niskanen]

Sorry for the late reply. I am digging in this code now for other 
reasons and have fixed the bug, in the next R9 release.

The Erlang file I/O server did some read ahead, and writes did not 
reposition to compensate for buffered read data (if any).

/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP



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Subject: io interleaving?
From: Bengt Kleberg <eleberg@REDACTED>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:39:33 +0100 (MET)
To: erlang-questions@REDACTED

greetings,

where should io:fwrite() place things in a file?

i have the following file

line r1
line r2
line r3

if i open the file [read, write], write ''line w1'' and read ''line
r2'' i have the contents:

line w1
line r2
line r3

however, if i open the file [read, write], read ''line r1'' and write
''line w1'' i have the contents:

line r1
line r2
line r3
line w1


i would have expected:

line r1
line w1
line r3

is this a bug, or, why is it like this?


bengt