On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That sounds good! I'm wondering if we should update storage/posix to use POSIX.2008 updates for its syscalls.
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 05:56:42PM +0530, Anand Avati wrote:It seems this has been adressed by standards:
> Your summary is accurate. Currently distribute assumes link(2)ability of
> non-directories to provide POSIX semantics that the destination path should
> always be accessible if a file already existed at the time of rename(2).
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/link.html
The bottom line is just to use lnkat(2) instead of link(2). I will
implement linkat support in NetBSD
Avati
