locking files

Chris Gonnerman chris.gonnerman at usa.net
Thu Feb 22 23:47:19 EST 2001


----- Original Message -----
From: "Erno Kuusela" <erno-news at erno.iki.fi>
Subject: Re: locking files
> at least on linux rename is a syscall, and the man page seems
> to say that the operation will be atomic if the destination
> path doesn't exist.

Huh.  You learn something new every day.

> well, nfs doesn't pretend to offer unix filesystem semantics anyway,
> usually it's not necessary to worry about how things work with it.

Usually.  But if you plan to use renaming to sub for locking, you need to
know this.






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