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I'm not sure that starting a new thread to do the file reading/writing/locking is likely to help as the parent thread would just have to wait for the child to finish before it could do anything useful anyway.
I deleted my post because I figured that couldn't be the right solution- just too complicated and potentially dangerous. However, it would free up your main thread to keep doing whatever background stuff it might need to to function properly. It seems from your post that this really didn't end up being a concern, so your approach should work just fine.


Edited by JeffS (13/12/2005 17:03)
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