Re: spamprobe-1.1x7 released

Brian Burton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamprobe.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ray wrote:
> Why not use rename(2)?  I'm not sure about other UNIX-like OSes,
> but OpenBSD's rename(2) claims:
> 
>      rename() guarantees that if _to_ already exists, an instance
>      of _to_ will always exist, even if the system should crash in
>      the middle of the operation.

Well, actually, it does use rename(2).  I was speaking generally.  It 
uses rename(), rename(), and unlink().

All the best,
++Brian


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