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I know that many OSes perform some sort of locking on the filesystem to prevent inconsistent views. Are there any guarantees that Java and/or Android make about thread-safety of file access? I would like to know as much about this as possible before I go ahead and write the concurrency code myself.
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Android is built on top of Linux, so inherits Linux’s filesystem semantics. Unless you explicitly lock a file, multiple applications and threads can open it for read/write access. Unless you actually need cross-process file synchronization, I would suggest using normal Java synchronization primitives for arbitrating access to the file.