Glenn Linderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On approximately 7/8/2005 12:22 PM, came the following characters from >the keyboard of Nick Ing-Simmons: >> Glenn Linderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>5. verify that an entry with that modification doesn't already exist >>>attempt to stat the entry with the modified name, if it works as with >>>the unmodified name, then the file system is case insensitive. >> >> >> Or someone created it since you verified it wasn't there. > >Yes, and you could reverify that it still isn't there, and then of >course, that could mean that someone deleted it since you discovered it >was there.
And if the "someone else" was perl doing a write style probe that becomes both cases are quite likely if OS yields CPU on system calls. > >Thanks for pointing out a statistical weakness in the algorithm.
