[Python-Dev] requirements for moving __import__ over to importlib?
Tres Seaver
tseaver at palladion.com
Fri Feb 10 22:29:31 CET 2012
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On 02/10/2012 03:38 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> Changes in any fashion to the directory. Do filesystems atomically
> update the mtime of a directory when they commit a change? Otherwise
> we have a potential race condition.
Hmm, maybe I misundersand you. In POSIX land, the only thing which
changes the mtime of a directory is linking / unlinking / renaming a
file: changes to individual files aren't detectable by examining their
containing directory's stat().
Tres.
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