On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:19:08PM -0400, Rick Thomas alleged: > seth vidal wrote: > > > > > Another alternative is: > > > > > > 1) write to .newheaders > > > 2) HARD LINK headers to .oldheaders > > > 3) rename .newheaders to headers > > > > > > That's efficient, but requires hard links :) > > > > which not all filesystems have, right. > > > Right. Not all filesystems have hard links. However, some do -- and in > that case, it would be very nice to provide *true* atomicity when > possible and cheap to do so. Would a bugzilla on this be useful? Unfortunately you can't hardlink directories. This is a general Unix rule that has been in my head for ages. I just actually tried it on Solaris and Linux, and found it to be true. Perhaps other OSes allow this.
