Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > On 2015-04-24 22:01:37 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > > So, I would say that this is a bug. POSIX says in > > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/readdir.html > > > > It may well be. But I'm just presenting facts about the > > filesystems that I assumed you were using when you posted > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/04/msg00651.html , > > not the theory of a POSIX-compliant system. > > What's important when designing a file system is what should happen, > not what actually happens.
Yes, but I don't design filesystems. I use them. > In case of bugs, anything can happen, so > that's not interesting at all. Au contraire mon frère, they're very important as you have to live with them and work around them. Being interested in them depends on ones background, of course. Mine was in writing robust and reliable real-time programs that couldn't afford to trip over known bugs, both hardware and software. Having glanced at pages on extN filesystems and POSIX-compliance, I can see lots of discussion between people interested in the problem of file-renaming and its interaction with crashes. Obviously there are two major aspects here; what to change in the filesystem design (and even in the POSIX specifications to prevent problems), and what to do to ameliorate the problems. As a real-time programmer, I would only be interested in the latter. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150426182641.GC1069@alum
