From: Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] wstat and atomic directory change
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 09:28:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHL7psHZfWU6LiBtSqpLocg863JDDu-LP8H9GWFHOHD-Py=2cw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45fe7ac7a1dab989624aa4ed2b376ff9@brasstown.quanstro.net>
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2015-02-04 4:51 GMT+01:00 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
> On Tue Feb 3 01:01:02 PST 2015, steve@quintile.net wrote:
>
> > the control file idea is a neat way of doing atomic moves.
> >
>
> control files are a good way of dealing with all kinds of exceptional
> behavior.
>
> but ...
>
> to be fair, this goes against the unix ideal of having uniform file
> operations.
>
You are right.
But since protocol customizations goes against that same ideal, what's the
plan9 way of dealing with a feature X (in this specific case atomic file
moves)?
> this requires delving into the namespace to tell that the directories are
> still under the
> same mount, and some non-uniform operations.
>
Good point. But thus, what are the alternatives?
Giacomo
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-30 11:21 Giacomo Tesio
2015-01-30 14:13 ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-30 15:59 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-01-30 20:19 ` Joel C. Salomon
2015-01-30 22:49 ` Anthony Sorace
2015-02-03 8:53 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-02-03 9:04 ` Quintile
2015-02-04 3:51 ` erik quanstrom
2015-02-04 8:28 ` Giacomo Tesio [this message]
2015-02-04 14:06 ` erik quanstrom
2015-02-04 14:29 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-02-04 16:30 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2015-02-04 19:23 ` erik quanstrom
2015-02-04 21:24 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-02-05 4:13 ` lucio
2015-02-05 8:21 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-02-05 8:37 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-02-05 8:59 ` lucio
2015-02-05 8:54 ` lucio
2015-02-05 16:13 ` erik quanstrom
2015-02-05 4:15 ` lucio
2015-02-05 16:20 ` erik quanstrom
2015-02-05 16:46 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-02-05 17:22 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2015-02-05 17:20 ` Bakul Shah
2015-02-05 4:26 sl
2015-02-05 4:26 sl
2015-02-05 8:08 ` Giacomo Tesio
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