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Re: Rename atomicity


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: Rename atomicity
Date: 04 Mar 2001 06:32:25 +0100
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"Derek R. Price" <address@hidden> wrote:
| Anyone ever tried to come up with a test for whether a rename across
| directories on the same file system/partition is atomic?  The best I can
| come up with is to rename a large file in a background process and try
| and kill it real quick, but I don't think that would remain reliable
| across a wide variety of platforms and hardware.

Do you know of a system on which such a use of rename is _not_ atomic?



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