[racket-dev] the preferences file under Windows

30 minutes ago, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately (again), the lock file has to exist alongside the data
> file, and our existing preferences files are not accompanied by lock
> files. It's no good assuming that you don't need the lock if there's
> no lock file present, because the lock file might get created in
> between the time that you try to use the lock file and the time that
> you try to open the preferences file.

Why not always use such a lock file, creating it if it's not there --
and then you can open it once per process, and lock/unlock it for each
read/write of the actual file.  Does this fail somehow?

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