On 2005-06-23, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Grant Edwards  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>Both open() and link() are atomic operations, so there's no
>>race condition.
>
> ...unless you're running under NFS.
I think read somewhere than NFS 3 handles the open with
CREAT+EXCL in an atomic manner (older versions didn't). I don't
know about link.

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