[saga-rg] Fwd (hupfeld at zib.de): Re: SAGA Strawman API Version 1.0

[Andre Merzky]

Not w/o semantics, but the programmer has to assume worst
case.

And, as Jon & John point out, that is not so different from
what you have 'locally'.  If you open a file for write, you
SHOULD assume worst case, that is the file is on NFS/AFS,
and POSIX consistency is NOT guaranteed.

A.


Quoting [Thorsten Schuett] (Jun 20 2005):
> 
> I see the point that it is hard guarantee a specific consistency model in SAGA 
> or make it a configuration option to choose one. But if you completely ignore 
> this topic in the specs you will end up with a good spec of the syntax but 
> without semantics.
> 
> My 0.02???,
> Thorsten

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