On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Matthias Andree wrote:
> So, what would help the common MTA?
Not relying on non-supported semantics to save your ass.
Rename() is atomic in the sense that you either see the
old name or the new name, but I don't know of systems
which guarantee atomicity across a system crash.
In fact, knowing how hard disks work mechanically, only
journaling filesystems could have an extention to make
this work. Ie. this is NOT something you can rely on ;)
regards,
Rik
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