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| From: | Paolo Bonzini |
| Subject: | bug#12366: [gnu-prog-discuss] Writing unwritable files |
| Date: | Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:38:46 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120717 Thunderbird/14.0 |
Il 06/09/2012 18:35, Paul Eggert ha scritto: >> > A program that reads the target file will never >> > be able to observe an intermediate result. > Sure, but that doesn't fix the race condition I > mentioned. If some other process is writing F > while I run 'sed -i F', F is not replaced atomically. How not so? Paolo > That's true even if the other process is another > instance of 'sed'.
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