[geeks] Solaris losing-writers question

[Joshua Boyd]

On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:33:26AM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2005, at 12:26 AM, Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:23, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> >> On Aug 13, 2005, at 12:05 AM, Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
> >
> >> The chances of an append being done at *the exact same time* are 
> >> pretty
> >> much nil.  IMO, not enough to get worried about.
> >
> > Yeah, that was something that occurred to me... and the comments, 
> > while welcome, are not THAT valuable that losing one or two of them 
> > would kill the idea.
> >
> 
> Erzakly.  If a comment doesn't make it to the file, is the loss really 
> all that great?

The process that fails to be able to write the comment should at least
return a message to the user saying it couldn't and to try again.