From: G. David Butler gdb@dbSystems.com
Subject: [9fans] create(2)/open(2) race for file creation
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 09:48:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980208154834.KcDL7tQ5cqcNP20UwhP5L6C5_BxyfOuf19jlYLtoFGQ@z> (raw)
>From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
>>>Any comments?
>
>it's hopeless trying to offer advice without knowing
>what you're actually trying to achieve at the application level
>(except that i can already say i really don't approve of the proposed
>change to create).
>
>what's the aim?
I have data coming from many sources that have a unique key
associated with it. I want to be able to receive this data
using the key as a file name without the data being corrupted.
This data may need to be updated at times. I have serveral
processes receiving this data and I don't want the data if I
already have it because my copy may have already been updated.
If I use the algorithm:
if stat fails {
create
write
close
}
I have no guarantee about the amout of time between the stat
and the create for each process. What I need is a atomic test
and set on each possible name. create(5) give me that, but there
is no way to get to it from the available system calls. I can't
use rendezvous because the processes are on different cpu servers.
So if you don't want to change create(2), do we implement O_EXCL?
David Butler
gdb@dbsystems.com
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1998-02-08 15:48 G.David [this message]
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1998-02-26 0:24 G.David
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1998-02-25 23:42 G.David
1998-02-10 14:34 G.David
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1998-02-08 22:48 G.David
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1998-02-08 16:52 G.David
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