From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <39F27E5B.381E63A@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200010220013.UAA10279@smarty.smart.net>, <005201c03bbe$95ac5ca0$b6c784c3@cybercable.fr> Subject: Re: [9fans] Df command in Plan9? Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:02:02 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1c0cc676-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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).