Re: [Nmh-workers] extensions on tmp filenames?

[David Levine]

Lyndon wrote:

> 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.

Well, that's the way it's documented.  This is when an existing
file is in the way of the new name.

I went with mkstemps(3), where available.  If not available,
it tries link(2), and if that fails, rename(2).

David