Re: Is mkdir guaranteed to be 'atomic' ??

[Nate Williams]

> >    is mkdir(3) guaranteed to be atomic?  
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >Are there filesystem type cases where this might not be the case 
> >(NFS being my main concern ....)
> 
> No.

Yes.  NFS doesn't guarantee atomicity, because it can't.  If the mkdir
call returns, you have no guarantee that the remote directory has been
created (caching, errors, etc...)




Nate

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