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* are usually two separate storage devices with entirely different
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* characteristics (and possibly different low-level APIs altogether!).
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*
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- * 2. **How to Access:** Another common mistake is applications assuming that all
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- * storage is universally writeable - again, many platforms treat game content
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- * and user data as two separate storage devices, and only user data is
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- * writeable while game content is read-only.
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+ * 2. **How to Access:** Another common mistake is applications assuming that
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+ * all storage is universally writeable - again, many platforms treat game
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+ * content and user data as two separate storage devices, and only user data
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+ * is writeable while game content is read-only.
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*
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- * 3. **When to Access:** The most
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- * common portability issue with filesystem access is _timing_ - you cannot
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- * always assume that the storage device is always accessible all of the time,
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- * nor can you assume that there are no limits to how long you have access to
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- * a particular device.
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+ * 3. **When to Access:** The most common portability issue with filesystem
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+ * access is _timing_ - you cannot always assume that the storage device is
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+ * always accessible all of the time, nor can you assume that there are no
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+ * limits to how long you have access to a particular device.
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*
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* Consider the following example:
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@@ -92,13 +91,13 @@
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* and saves are all presumed to be in the current working directory (which
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* may or may not be the game's installation folder!).
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*
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- * 2. **How to Access:**
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- * This code assumes that content paths are writeable, and that save data is
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- * also writeable despite being in the same location as the game data.
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+ * 2. **How to Access:** This code assumes that content paths are writeable,
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+ * and that save data is also writeable despite being in the same location as
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+ * the game data.
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*
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- * 3. **When to Access:** This code assumes that they can be called at any time,
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- * since the filesystem is always accessible and has no limits on how long the
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- * filesystem is being accessed.
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+ * 3. **When to Access:** This code assumes that they can be called at any
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+ * time, since the filesystem is always accessible and has no limits on how
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+ * long the filesystem is being accessed.
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*
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* Due to these assumptions, the filesystem code is not portable and will fail
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* under these common scenarios:
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* 1. **What to Access:** This code explicitly reads from a title or user
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* storage device based on the context of the function.
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*
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- * 2. **How to Access:** This code explicitly uses either a read or write function based on the
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- * context of the function.
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+ * 2. **How to Access:** This code explicitly uses either a read or write
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+ * function based on the context of the function.
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*
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- * 3. **When to Access:** This code explicitly opens
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- * the device when it needs to, and closes it when it is finished working with
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- * the filesystem.
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+ * 3. **When to Access:** This code explicitly opens the device when it needs
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+ * to, and closes it when it is finished working with the filesystem.
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*
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* The result is an application that is significantly more robust against the
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* increasing demands of platforms and their filesystems!
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