Doug,

> If Firebird's' classic architecture is being used then each process accessing the
> file can read it. However, it's hard to imagine a read-only file access would
> corrupt the file being read.
>
> Perhaps better experts than I can give you a more definitive answer.

We have over 100 production Firebird servers deployed, all using classic, and have never had a corruption due to file being accessed by third-party application -- in 14+ years.


Sean