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Message:

Not simultaneous

Posted by Bill Venners on 10 Aug 1998, 11:50 AM

> In your finalizer article for JavaWorld you say:

> "Given this design, you could write to multiple log files with 1 instance of this class"

> Assuming you mean simultaneously (otherwise its true for all approches)
> this is incorrect.

> To do this you would need multiple fos, pw & logFileOpen
> variables, and to include the filename in the writeToFile &
> closeLogFile methods..
>
Yeah, you're right. I didn't mean simultaneously. I should
clarify that in the text. I meant you could write to multiple
files one after the other. You can only have on open at a time,
though you could go back and forth, revisiting ones you'd
previously written to.

bv