[ZODB-Dev] ZODB Blob Question

[Christian Theune]

Hi,

Just found this in my inbox.

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 12:18 +0200, Andreas Zeidler wrote:
> On Oct 14, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Christian Theune wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 10:09 -0500, Alan Runyan wrote:
> >> Why must the file be closed before calling consumeFile?
> >>
> >> And would you go as far as saying that if you *do not close* the file
> >> before calling consumeFile - all bets are off.  You are not using  
> >> Blob
> >> as intended?
> >
> > You're definitely not going to be able to work on Windows, which is  
> > the
> > source of the requirements to close handles before moving/deleting
> > files.
> 
> alan and i hit that point when trying to avoid copying the uploaded  
> data before handing it to `consumeFile` and were wondering if the  
> requirement was only necessary because of that or if perhaps other  
> unexpected things would creep up later.  so, would you say it's  
> generally okay to leave the file open (until the end of the request)  
> on a posix system?

Yeah, posix systems generally allow you to operate on the file(name)
while open file handles are still referencing it. 

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