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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