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 Shouldn't byte range locking be mentioned for the Windows platform? 

For Unix locking, it is mentioned that ""different kinds of locks may be applied to different sections (byte ranges) of a file"". This is not mentioned for the Windows platform. 

However, when I checkout the LockFile function in msdn, it seems to me that this is also possible on the windows platform, though only for ""server"" editions of the OS. I'm not a file-locking specialist, so I'm hesitating a bit to edit the article..."