[Gambas-user] Documentation for LOCK

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 30/10/2018 à 12:14, Hans Lehmann a écrit :
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I am working on a chapter "Paths in Gambas" for the Gambas book in 
> connection with the stream & input/output functions.
> The documentation says:
> 
> /Beware that the locked file is emptied! So never use a file whose 
> contents is important./
> 
> But when I execute the following statement:
> 
>    Public hLockFile As Stream
>    ...
>    Try hLockFile = Lock Desktop.DataDir &/ "gambasbook/test.txt"
> 
> then the file is not emptied. Is the documentation faulty?
> 
> Yours sincerely
> 
> Hans
> 
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It depends on the Gambas version. Now it is not emptied anymore.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini