From: Tim Writer <tim@starnix.com>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: File locking within zsh?
Date: 12 May 2006 15:40:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lt3bffqbf5.fsf@newsol.starnix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060512075401.GN4116@prunille.vinc17.org>
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> writes:
> On 2006-05-11 11:45:21 -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Vincent Lefevre" <vincent@vinc17.org>
> > To: <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:13 PM
> > Subject: Re: File locking within zsh?
> >
> >
> > >On 2006-05-10 01:59:57 -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
> > >>Is that better or worse, and why, than umask 222 ; >file ?
> > >
> > >Are you sure that this is guaranteed to work with any NFS server?
> >
> > Not at all sure, never having tried on any nfs mount.
>
> So, it's probably better to use the symbolic link solution (ln -s),
> which is guaranteed to be atomic, even on NFS. This is the solution
> chosen by Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76431
The solution was a hard link solution. I'm not sure that the symlink() system
call is guaranteed to be atomic but link() is.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-12 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-09 22:04 Lloyd Zusman
2006-05-10 3:31 ` Tim Writer
2006-05-10 5:59 ` Brian K. White
2006-05-10 10:02 ` Lloyd Zusman
2006-05-10 22:04 ` Tim Writer
2006-05-11 3:41 ` Bart Schaefer
2006-05-11 14:25 ` Tim Writer
2006-05-11 15:01 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-05-12 4:22 ` Tim Writer
2006-05-12 9:17 ` Subshells and parameters (was: File locking within zsh?) Vincent Lefevre
2006-05-12 12:09 ` Subshells and parameters Lloyd Zusman
2006-05-12 23:09 ` Vincent Lefevre
2006-05-13 2:05 ` Lloyd Zusman
2006-05-17 14:24 ` Vincent Lefevre
2006-05-17 15:42 ` Bart Schaefer
2006-05-17 16:07 ` Vincent Lefevre
2006-05-13 2:10 ` Dan Nelson
2006-05-11 16:13 ` File locking within zsh? Brian K. White
2006-05-10 17:13 ` Vincent Lefevre
2006-05-11 15:45 ` Brian K. White
2006-05-12 7:54 ` Vincent Lefevre
2006-05-12 19:40 ` Tim Writer [this message]
2006-05-12 23:24 ` Vincent Lefevre
2006-05-10 21:53 ` Tim Writer
2006-05-10 6:29 ` DervishD
2006-05-10 10:02 ` Lloyd Zusman
2006-05-10 21:21 ` DervishD
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