Il 06/09/2012 18:35, Paul Eggert ha scritto:
>> > A program that reads the target file will never
>> > be able to observe an intermediate result. 
> Sure, but that doesn't fix the race condition I
> mentioned.  If some other process is writing F
> while I run 'sed -i F', F is not replaced atomically.

How not so?

Paolo

> That's true even if the other process is another
> instance of 'sed'.




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