On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 01:18:41AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Then there is always a /bin/sh (except during the execution of the mv > command) and its nature is preserved, except for the short period > between the unpacking of the bash package and it being configured. I read somewhere (maybe Johnson & Troan's book) that mv is guaranteed to be atomic. There is no point at which any process sees neither the original file, the destination file, or both. -- G. Branden Robinson | "To be is to do" -- Plato Debian GNU/Linux | "To do is to be" -- Aristotle branden@ecn.purdue.edu | "Do be do be do" -- Sinatra cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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