Mike Castle wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 05:51:45PM +0100, Assar Westerlund wrote:
>
> > Derek: what did you want this for? CVS? And have you escaped on
> > vacation yet? :-)
>
> Considering the RCS atomic rename() comment earlier, I was wondering what
> the issue was as well.
Yes on both
Mike Castle wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 05:51:45PM +0100, Assar Westerlund wrote:
> > Mike Castle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > NT. (NT will happily rename() across disks, hardly an atomic operation).
> >
> > What rename() is that? It's not the one in their posix library I
> > assume
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 05:51:45PM +0100, Assar Westerlund wrote:
> Mike Castle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > NT. (NT will happily rename() across disks, hardly an atomic operation).
>
> What rename() is that? It's not the one in their posix library I
> assume? Is there a rename function in
> From: Assar Westerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 06 Mar 2001 17:51:45 +0100
> If you're writing code that
> depends on this and that has to be able to run on systems where you
> cannot guarantee that rename isn't atomic, atomicity has to be
> accomplished in some other way.
Agreed, but I've
On 6 Mar 2001, Assar Westerlund wrote:
> Mike Castle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 06:32:25AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > > Do you know of a system on which such a use of rename is _not_ atomic?
> >
> > NT. (NT will happily rename() across disks, hardly an atomic op
Mike Castle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 06:32:25AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Do you know of a system on which such a use of rename is _not_ atomic?
>
> NT. (NT will happily rename() across disks, hardly an atomic operation).
What rename() is that? It's not the on
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 06:32:25AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Do you know of a system on which such a use of rename is _not_ atomic?
NT. (NT will happily rename() across disks, hardly an atomic operation).
Some earlier implementations of Linux.
I believe some implementations of Solaris (for
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Derek R. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | Anyone ever tried to come up with a test for whether a rename across
> | directories on the same file system/partition is atomic? The best I can
> | come up with is to rename a large file in a background pr
"Derek R. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Anyone ever tried to come up with a test for whether a rename across
| directories on the same file system/partition is atomic? The best I can
| come up with is to rename a large file in a background process and try
| and kill it real quick, but I don
