Re: Defaults being destroyed

[Alexey I. Froloff]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 07:15:07AM +0100, Stefan Urbanek wrote:
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> It seems, that if a program does not see some domain in
> database at program startup, it will not write it back. It
> may be a problem in -[NSUserDefaults synchronize] I think,
> but I am not sure.
-[NSUserDefaults synchronize] uses NSLock than works between
threads but not processes. Writinig defaults database is not
atomic operation.

I think solution can be in using NSDistributedLock, but
timeout is needed in case some program dies when writing this
file...

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Regards, Sir Raorn.
AIF5-RIPN, AIF5-RIPE, Binec System Administrator.

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