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Re: [Nmh-workers] extensions on tmp filenames?
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Lyndon Nerenberg |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] extensions on tmp filenames? |
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Sat, 1 Feb 2014 17:40:43 -0800 |
On Feb 1, 2014, at 2:30 PM, David Levine <address@hidden> wrote:
> rename allows the new filename to refer
> to the old file, even if very briefly. So I removed that
> rename.
If it does, it's horribly broken. ISO C demands that rename() be atomic -
that's the whole reason for its existence.
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