Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

[mouss]

At 21:25 07/02/01 +1000, Greg Black wrote:
>Tony Finch wrote:
>
> > Why not just use rename(2)? To protect against the new filename
> > already existing?
>
>Why not just read the man page for rename(2) before making
>suggestions?

I find nothing convincing in the manpage. Could you please tell
what I am missing.

- both rename and link require the files to be on the fs
- both rename and the link/unlink guarantee the existence of
the file whatever happens

so what's the motivation except old heritage of possibly broken rename()?
or is it just because qmail developper have seen that in the fwtk code?

regards,
mouss



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