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Re: atomic replacement of autom4te's output file
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: atomic replacement of autom4te's output file |
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Fri, 26 May 2006 08:56:15 -0700 |
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Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
> I'd lean against this patch. The standard behavior for Unix utilities
> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/xcu_chap01.html#tag_01_07_01_04>
> is simply to open an output file for writing, and not to attempt to
> make the entire creation of the file atomic.
OK, thanks for the feedback.
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