On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 09:15 -0400, Morten Welinder wrote: > F*** "POSIX allows this"! A program that does open-write-close- > rename should not be left with an empty file in case something > goes wrong. The old file, or the new file. Anything else is insane > and by extension the kernel developers and their ancestors.
100% agreed. Has anyone actually debugged why this happens? The kernel must surely ensure that even if it reorders data/metadata requests, it will do so in sensible ways only, doesn't it? Federico _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list