From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Df command in Plan9?
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:37:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <009101c03dae$bc8c77a0$aec784c3@cybercable.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39F27E5B.381E63A@null.net>
From: Douglas A. Gwyn <DAGwyn@null.net>
> Boyd Roberts wrote:
> > kirk said that it took multiple iterations to get rename(2)
> > right, because it's a nasty problem.
>
> How could it be? It's just modifying a record in a single
> file (the directory file). I understand that organizing
> that file as variable-length records makes updating a problem,
> but rename as such is easy (lock, change, unlock).
i'm suprised by this response from you, doug. the wdir
is the least of the problem(s). it's working out whether
you're ripping out the tree from under yourself is the
nasty problem. or, maybe for you, kernel n-ary tree
structure mangling is a simple operation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-24 11:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-20 20:31 Russ Cox
2000-10-20 21:44 ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-20 21:51 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-10-21 0:37 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-21 10:13 ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-22 0:13 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-22 0:25 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-10-22 15:41 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-23 9:02 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-10-23 10:30 ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-24 11:37 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2000-10-25 8:30 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-10-26 4:54 ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-26 5:44 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-10-22 11:34 ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-22 15:59 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-22 16:43 ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-23 5:06 ` Boyd Roberts
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-10-22 17:06 forsyth
2000-10-23 2:23 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-22 11:04 forsyth
2000-10-22 12:49 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-10-22 13:16 ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-22 16:07 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-22 16:31 ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-23 2:07 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-22 16:05 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-20 21:51 presotto
2000-10-20 20:22 Mark C. Otto
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