Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:01:28 -0600 From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is mkdir guaranteed to be 'atomic' ?? Message-ID: <200102262201.f1QM1S620699@guild.plethora.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Feb 2001 13:59:14 PST." <200102262159.f1QLxES01872@mass.dis.org>
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In message <200102262159.f1QLxES01872@mass.dis.org>, 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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