On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-...@web.de> wrote: > I think you are dead wrong there Ian. Even if every single program is > dead right (and we know a lot aren't) that means every one of them has > a safe file update function somewhere in it. > > A function doing exactly the same thing in many programms. Doesn't that > just scream for a shared library?
If the kernel supported it properly, it'd be even easier and you wouldn't have all regressions. Lacking that, a lib is the next best thing. > Add to that the number of programs that don't yet do file updates in a > safe way and need to be fixed I think the project is a verry good > idea. The unexpected behaviour of ext4 is just a minor implementation > detail to take care for a general safe update function. Some instrumentation to detect such unsafe behaviour would be helpful too. Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTimj=78qkXG=xfc3qop5yyydwkpr9v33hx7s_...@mail.gmail.com
