On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 06:32:25AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Do you know of a system on which such a use of rename is _not_ atomic?
NT. (NT will happily rename() across disks, hardly an atomic operation).
Some earlier implementations of Linux.
I believe some implementations of Solaris (for performance reasons, rename
was not made atomic).
mrc
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