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From: Peter Slegg <p.slegg at scubadivers.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Freemint-list] API proposal for online FATFS
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On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 21:04:11 , Miro Krop=E1?ek wrote:
> On 5 February 2017 at 20:54, Peter Slegg <p.slegg at scubadivers.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > I am not quite sure what this would be used for ?
>
>
> Well, FreeMiNT is a multitasking OS, right? So there's more than one
> process. And if your process happens to be Diamond Back/Edge, you certainly
> don't want to erase files while D.B./D.E. is messing up with your disk's
> clusters. Hence the API and locking.
>
>

Oh I see, it's a file locking system for FAT FS.

Peter