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. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Will it improve my at CASH FLOW? visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list