object.enable() anti-pattern

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 09 May 2013 18:23:31 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:

> On 09May2013 19:54, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> | Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> | > There is no sensible use-case for creating a file WITHOUT OPENING
> | > it. What would be the point?
> |
> | Early unix systems often used this as a form of locking.
> 
> Not just early systems: it's a nice lightweight method of making a
> lockfile even today if you expect to work over NFS, where not that many
> things are synchronous. You OPEN A FILE with "0" modes

[emphasis added]

This is all very well and good, but for the life of me, I cannot see how 
opening a file is a good example of not opening a file. Perhaps it is a 
Zen thing, like the sound no spoon makes when you don't tap it against a 
glass that isn't there.


-- 
Steven