Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "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?
On ancient Unices rename was done by link+unlink, but I doubt that any
of these old systems had a rename() system call or library function.
4BSD had `atomic' rename().
/assar
