2015-02-04 4:51 GMT+01:00 erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>: > On Tue Feb 3 01:01:02 PST 2015, st...@quintile.net wrote: > > > the control file idea is a neat way of doing atomic moves. > > > > control files are a good way of dealing with all kinds of exceptional > behavior. > > but ... > > to be fair, this goes against the unix ideal of having uniform file > operations. >
You are right. But since protocol customizations goes against that same ideal, what's the plan9 way of dealing with a feature X (in this specific case atomic file moves)? > this requires delving into the namespace to tell that the directories are > still under the > same mount, and some non-uniform operations. > Good point. But thus, what are the alternatives? Giacomo
