Re: Initial ideas on portals for file access

[Christian Hergert <christian hergert me>]

On 03/10/2015 01:18 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> Yeah, I'm not sure the "Save" name is ideal. What it really is is "here
> is a new version of the file contents". Maybe something like
> ReplaceContents() is better. That said, do we really want applications
> to start saving to files automatically all the time, even without
> triggering a save operation? I think a lot of people may be surprised by
> that behaviour. And if so, how often do we save them? We can't save all
> the time, that would be pretty poor performance.

This is not much of an issue when integrated with a system that can
track changes to a file. I think some other operating systems did this
in both the past and present. (OpenVMS for example).

-- Christian