How do I detect who and when A file gets accessed ?

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Fri Sep 22 07:17:37 AEST 1989


In article <3322 at solo10.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>One problem: to prevent race conditions when updating the user register,
>you have to use some locking mechanism.

Not if it is opened in append mode and a log entry is done with a single,
small write.



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