Is there any way for System.IO.StreamWriter Write method to write out part of the string to file. such as if the machine is shut down half way through? or does the file not actually exist until the entire write is completed successfully.

Is there any way for System.IO.StreamWriter Write method to write out part
of the string to file. such as if the machine is shut down half way through?
or does the file not actually exist until the entire write is completed
successfully.

Jon
Tue Sep 06 15:36:23 CDT 2005

(I've truncated the subject line - it's really not meant for whole
questions!)

Daniel <softwareengineer98037@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there any way for System.IO.StreamWriter Write method to write out part
> of the string to file. such as if the machine is shut down half way through?
> or does the file not actually exist until the entire write is completed
> successfully.

I don't think there's any guarantee of that, no. It would almost
certainly depend on what the operating system did, but I think it
wouldn't be wise to rely on that sort of atomicity.

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