Re: profile sharing and directory service

Judson Valeski <[email protected]> writes:
> Doug Turner wrote:
> 
> > Should callers know that they are getting a shared copy?
> 
> IMO, no. Ideally we shield consumers from that fact.
> 
> >   There are tons of places where permissions of certain files are 
> > assumed.  What about file locking?  
> 
> locking/sync'ing behind the scenes is the goal. this means we'd have to 
> clean up all the code that hangs on to raw file pointers (our 
> abstraction of them at least).

This layer of abstraction seems like it would be the right place to
have hooks for roaming, so that reads and writes could happen remotely,
presumably through some sort of write-through cache.

Do others agree?

Dan