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

[Peter Seebach]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Smith writes:
>How would it *not* be atomic?

Well, imagine a hypothetical broken system in which two simultaneous calls
to mkdir, on some hypothetical broken filesystem, can each think that it
"succeeded".  After all, at the end of the operation, the directory has
been created, so who's to say they're wrong?  ;)

-s

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