Reading a File That is Being Written To From Phobos

[Frits van Bommel]

dsimcha wrote:
> It seems that Phobos won't allow opening a file that is being written to by
> another program.  I understand that this is unsafe behavior.  However, for my
> purposes, I don't care and want to do it anyhow.  (My purposes are that I have
> a program periodically dumping data to a file and every once in a while I want
> another program to just parse the results and print a summary to the screen).
>  I usually receive a message like:
> 
> std.stream.OpenException: Cannot open or create file <filename>
> 
> This occurs even when I can open the file in vi, etc.  Is this a conscious
> design decision?  If not, is it a legitimate bug?

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2429 ?