From: Roman V Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] renaming to an existing file
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 18:25:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1249435550.479.16703.camel@work.SFBay.Sun.COM> (raw)
I've just realized that in 9P the wstat would refuse
to rename an entry if a target name already exists.
So how can I atomically replace one file with another
one, so that during the operation clients opening
it would not fail?
In POSIX rename gives you such an atomicity:
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If the old argument points to the pathname of a file that is not a
directory, the new argument shall not point to the pathname of a
directory. If the link named by the new argument exists, it shall be
removed and old renamed to new. In this case, a link named new shall
remain visible to other processes throughout the renaming operation and
refer either to the file referred to by new or old before the operation
began.
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How can I achieve the same result with 9P?
Thanks,
Roman.
next reply other threads:[~2009-08-05 1:25 UTC|newest]
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2009-08-05 1:25 Roman V Shaposhnik [this message]
2009-08-05 1:41 ` Russ Cox
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