Re: Save file exclusively locked when displaying? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Save file exclusively locked when displaying?
From: Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 13:58:08 -0600
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On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 1:55 PM David Gibbs via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 8/2/21 2:42 PM, Jack Woehr via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

I think savefiles are designed to use specific IOP MI's .. if the is true
you can see why twiddling a savefile would necessarily lock it.

Yes, but we're not talking about twiddling it. Just reading it.

Well, that's the thing. If DSPSAVF goes direct to MI or uses "funny" APIs
to read the file it's gonna be locked.

david

p.s., 'twiddling' is a new technical term I'm going to adopt.

"Glad to have been of help." :)

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