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2010-12-31 Thread José Antonio Hernández
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Re: Safe File Update (atomic)

2010-12-31 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Olaf van der Spek schrieb: > > renames on open files, as they're also identified by the filename. > > Not true. Renaming a running executable works just fine, for example. Well, has been quite a while since I last used Windows, but IIRC renaming an running executable was denied. > >> > Why n

Re: Safe File Update (atomic)

2010-12-31 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:58 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: >> These cases aren't that rare. Windows, for example, tends to deny >> renames on open files, as they're also identified by the filename. >> (yes, there're other solutions for this problem, eg. having some >> internal-only inode numbering,

Re: Safe File Update (atomic)

2010-12-31 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Olaf van der Spek schrieb: > >> > Well, they're an fundamental concept which sometimes *IS* significant >> > to the applications. It's very different from systems where each >> > file has exactly one name (eg. DOS/Windows) or where there'

Re: Safe File Update (atomic)

2010-12-31 Thread brian m. carlson
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 03:44:56PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Olaf van der Spek schrieb: > > > > Well, they're an fundamental concept which sometimes *IS* significant > > > to the applications. It's very different from systems where each > > > file has exactly one name (eg. DOS/Windows) or

Re: Safe File Update (atomic)

2010-12-31 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Olaf van der Spek schrieb: > > Well, they're an fundamental concept which sometimes *IS* significant > > to the applications. It's very different from systems where each > > file has exactly one name (eg. DOS/Windows) or where there're just > > filesnames that point to opaque stream objects tha

Re: Bitcoin donation

2010-12-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 11:52 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 30 décembre 2010 à 23:01 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit : > > But it might be interesting to support the bitcoin system by accepting > > donations, and give users of bitcoin more to spend their bitcoins > > on. :) > > I don

Re: Safe File Update (atomic)

2010-12-31 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> To me, inodes are an implementation detail that shouldn't be exposed. > > Well, they're an fundamental concept which sometimes *IS* significant > to the applications. It's very different from systems where each > file has exactly one name (

Re: Safe File Update (atomic)

2010-12-31 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Olaf van der Spek schrieb: > > something that requires inode->path reverse mappings).  You could ask > > for syscalls to copy inodes, etc.  You could ask for whatever is needed > > To me, inodes are an implementation detail that shouldn't be exposed. Well, they're an fundamental concept which

Bug#608496: ITP: libkibi -- library for byte prefixes

2010-12-31 Thread Benjamin Drung
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benjamin Drung * Package name: libkibi Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Benjamin Drung * URL : https://launchpad.net/libkibi * License : ISC Programming Lang: C Description : library for byte prefixes This librar

Re: Safe File Update (atomic)

2010-12-31 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> Ah, hehe. BTW, care to respond to the mail I send to you? > > There is nothing more I can add to this thread.  You want O_ATOMIC.  It That's a shame. I thought I provided pretty

Re: Safe File Update (atomic)

2010-12-31 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Ah, hehe. BTW, care to respond to the mail I send to you? There is nothing more I can add to this thread. You want O_ATOMIC. It cannot be implemented for all use cases of the POSIX API, so it will not be implemented by the kernel. That's all there

Re: Bitcoin donation

2010-12-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 30 décembre 2010 à 23:01 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit : > But it might be interesting to support the bitcoin system by accepting > donations, and give users of bitcoin more to spend their bitcoins > on. :) I don’t think it is a good idea to promote and support a system that is desi

Re: Safe File Update (atomic)

2010-12-31 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> BTW: safely removing a file is also tricky.  AFAIK, one must open it RW, >> in exclusive mode. stat it by fd and check whether it is what one >> expects (regular file, o

Re: using perl in preinst script

2010-12-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Carsten Hey wrote: > * Philipp Kern [2010-12-29 05:38 +]: > > On 2010-12-28, Carsten Hey wrote: > > > ... One reason for this is that dpkg's perl scripts were rewritten > > > in C. > > > > I know you phrased it differently but wasn't the motivation for this > > rewrite to