RE:changing macro on disk while it is r
Pasha Murat (murat@cdfsga.fnal.gov)
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 12:26:38 -0600 (CST)
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