diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'includes')
| -rw-r--r-- | includes/rts/FileLock.h | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/includes/rts/FileLock.h b/includes/rts/FileLock.h index 84f1f63881..baf9f680fb 100644 --- a/includes/rts/FileLock.h +++ b/includes/rts/FileLock.h @@ -11,6 +11,22 @@ * * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ +/* Note [RTS File locking] + * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + * + * The Haskell report dictates certain file locking behaviour. + * This is specified in the Haskell98 report under: 21.2.3 File locking + * + * GHC does not rely on the platform it's on to implement this. + * Instead we keep track of locked files in a data structure in + * the RTS. This file provides the interface to this data structure. + * + * In the base librarie we then use this interface to "lock" files. + * This means it's very much still possible for users outside of the + * rts/base library to open the files in question even if they are + * locked. + * */ + #pragma once #include "Stg.h" |