[Freemint-list] API proposal for online FATFS

[J. F. Lemaire]

On 5 February 2017 at 12:04, Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5 February 2017 at 20:54, Peter Slegg <p.slegg at scubadivers.co.uk> wrote:
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>> 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.

I think Peter may have been confused by the term "online" and
understood it as meaning "over the network".

Cheers,
JFL
-- 
Jean-François Lemaire