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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
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Subject: Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)
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Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> wrote:
>Tony Finch wrote:
>
>> Why not just use rename(2)? To protect against the new filename
>> already existing?
>
>Why not just read the man page for rename(2) before making
>suggestions?

I did. I'm glad I was right that it's deleting the destination that is
the problem. I would have thought it would be easy to be sure that
spool filenames are unique, but OTOH I guess that's not completely
robust.

Tony.
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