20 Mar
2002
20 Mar
'02
10:33 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002, Jon Fairbairn wrote:
Could someone post an example of the creation of a temporary file where race conditions are important?
/any/ programme that does this on a multi-process system.
Occasionally, the presence or absence of a file (usually empty) of a certain name in a certain directory is used for communication between processes on a multi-process system.
Hence the need for an atomic openNewFile. -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk 31 Chalmers Road jf@cl.cam.ac.uk Cambridge CB1 3SZ +44 1223 570179 (after 14:00 only, please!)