At 23:46 -0400 1999-07-22, Branden Robinson wrote:
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.
rename() is atomic, however GNU mv falls back on copying if it's told to move something across filesystems.
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