From: barjunk <barjunk@...>
Date: 2007-06-12T07:25:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby way to update a file in place

On Jun 11, 1:11 pm, "Bill Guindon" <agori...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/11/07, Li Chen <chen_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Where can I find some information about mmap?
>
> Google is your friend...http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=ruby+mmap&btnG=Google+...
>
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/mmap/
>
> > thanks,
>
> > Li
>
> > --
> > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> --
> Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)
> The best answer to most questions is "it depends".

Although it may be wrong, I recently used lockfile and temporary files
to do inline editing.  It is probably inefficient, but it seems to
work for what I am using it for.

Maybe someone can point out how to use the -i feature of ruby from
within the program instead of  a shell command, that would work nice
as well.

In the application I was working on, there were possibilities for
multiple access at the same time.

Mike B.