On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 3:32:13 pm Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 08:09:20AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 6:02:47 am Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> > > GNU coreutils mv (and also cp/install/ln) appears to use
> > > -T/--no-target-directory for a sim
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 08:09:20AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 6:02:47 am Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> > GNU coreutils mv (and also cp/install/ln) appears to use
> > -T/--no-target-directory for a similar purpose: -T prevents the target
> > being treated as a directory (w
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 6:02:47 am Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:58:09AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > I have a use case at work where I need to be able to update a symlink
> > that points to a directory atomically (so that it points to a new
> > directory). To give a
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:58:09AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> I have a use case at work where I need to be able to update a symlink
> that points to a directory atomically (so that it points to a new
> directory). To give a conrete example, suppose I have two directories
> 'foo' and 'bar', and a
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:58:09 -0400
John Baldwin wrote:
> I have a use case at work where I need to be able to update a symlink that
> points to a directory atomically (so that it points to a new directory). To
> give a conrete example, suppose I have two directories 'foo' and 'bar', and a
> s
I have a use case at work where I need to be able to update a symlink that
points to a directory atomically (so that it points to a new directory). To
give a conrete example, suppose I have two directories 'foo' and 'bar', and a
symlink 'a' that I wish to atomically flip from 'foo' to 'bar'.
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