Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [Question] how to preserve multiple file's atomicity ?

[Matthew Dempsky]

Tez Kamihira <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 02:50:15 -0600, Matthew Dempsky <address@hidden> said:
>> 
>> Are you asking for something beyond simple atomic commits which arch
>> already natively supports?
>> 
>
> If I'm correct, arch, and any other SCM's transaction is essentially,
> "file appending".

What do you mean by "file appending"?

> Such operation does not interfere any files that already exists. But
> the way I want is "multiple file's atomic modification".  It's not
> the same.

Arch does support multiple file atomic modification natively.  Simply
modify multiple files between invocations of 'tla commit' and *poof*
atomic commits.  This has been supported by arch since its inception.