Re: Rename atomicity

[Jim Meyering]

"Derek R. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Anyone ever tried to come up with a test for whether a rename across
| directories on the same file system/partition is atomic?  The best I can
| come up with is to rename a large file in a background process and try
| and kill it real quick, but I don't think that would remain reliable
| across a wide variety of platforms and hardware.

Do you know of a system on which such a use of rename is _not_ atomic?