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From: sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 wiping itself?
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:58:59 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <140e7ec30711292058i16b0d11bjc1d7646e336f2ee7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <474D93A2.278C7D77@null.net>

On Nov 29, 2007 1:29 AM, Douglas A. Gwyn <DAGwyn@null.net> wrote:
> Instead of delete and later replace, how about create unique-named temp new file then immediately rename to target name?
> If rename is atomic then nothing could ever get lost.

 I suspect the submitted patch (ie, don't delete the file in the first
place) is similar enough.
 Thanks a lot Russ, for the fixes and explanation.
-sqweek


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-30  4:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-23 23:29 Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-24 17:44 ` Antonin Vecera
2007-11-24 17:46   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-24 18:43     ` Uriel
2007-11-28  4:21       ` Russ Cox
2007-11-28  7:43         ` sqweek
2007-11-28 14:35           ` Russ Cox
2007-11-28 16:29             ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-11-30  4:58               ` sqweek [this message]
2007-11-24 20:59     ` erik quanstrom

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