Re: Question about RandomAccessFile Code

[Daryl Lee <dlee at altaregos dot com>]

I think the raf2 reference must be a residual of some code that I didn't
clean up well when I was in there last.  I've tested the code without it
and it seems okay.  I'll get it checked in shortly.

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:04:12AM -0500, Patrick Ellis wrote:
> Mark/Tom,
> 
> During testing of the RandomAccessFile code, a file is create during execution called "raftmpfile". This
> file is used during testing. 
> My question is the code makes reference to the file twice in io/RandomAccessFile/jdk11.java but
> raf2 is not used anywhere else in the code. A problem occurs on the VMS platform because of the
> creation of the file twice in the below code. Was this the intent of the code or a bug ?  
>         
>         String fname = "raftmpfile";
>         RandomAccessFile raf, raf2;
>         int rdcnt;
>         byte[] buf = { 0, 0, 0, 0 };
> 
>         // Start by deleting test file, if it exists,
>         //      to clear out any leftover data
> 
>         File f = new File(fname);
>         if (f.exists()) {
>                 f.delete();
>         }
> 
>         // new RandomAccessFile(fname, mode)
>     try {
>         raf2 = new RandomAccessFile(f, "rw");
>         }
>         catch (IOException e) {
>                 harness.fail("new RandomAccessFile(File, mode): Can't open file " + fname);
>                 return;  // can't proceed without open file
>         }
> 
>         // new RandomAccessFile(filename, mode);
>         try {
>         raf = new RandomAccessFile(fname, "rw");
>         }
>         catch (IOException e) {
>                 harness.fail("new RandomAccessFile(Filename, mode): Can't open file " + fname);
>                 return;  // can't proceed without open file
>         }
>         try {
>                 FileDescriptor fd = raf.getFD();
>         }
>         catch (IOException e) {
>                 harness.fail("getFD(): Can't get FileDescriptor");
>                 return;  // shouldn't proceed if no FileDescriptor
>         }
> 
> Pat Ellis
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> 

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Daryl Lee
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