Re: [File API] File behavior under modification

Agreed.

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Arun Ranganathan
<aranganathan@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
> On May 23, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Glenn Maynard wrote:
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> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Kinuko Yasuda <kinuko@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> Just to make sure, I assume 'the underlying storage' includes memory.
>
>
> Right.  For simple Blobs without a mutable backing store, all of this
> essentially optimizes away.
>
>> We should also make it clear whether .size and .lastModifiedDate should
>> return live state or should just returning the same constant values.  (I
>> assume the latter)
>
>
> It would be the values at the time of the snapshot state.  (I doubt it was
> ever actually intended that lastModifiedDate always return the file's latest
> mtime.  We'll find out when one of the editors gets around to this
> thread...)
>
>
> I think the ideal behavior is that it reflects values at snapshot state, but
> that reads if snapshot state has modified fail.
>
> -- A*