On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Marco Peereboom <[email protected]> wrote: > You are positively ignorant. No need to regurgitate this all over > again. Take your toy mail implementation and enjoy your hair.
You are still refusing to give a direct answer to a direct question. How's that not ignorant? I wonder why that might be... All this "well, we can't really tell what the hardware may do" crap isn't enough. Perhaps you don't have an answer.... >> Now SATA controller - no cache, SATA disk - write-back cache disabled. >> FFS mounted 'sync' on it. In most cases, can rename() provide the >> quarantee as its man page? By most cases I mean typical usage >> day-to-day usage without single-bit or other errors, or hardware going >> flaky. I do know errors happen, ok? > rename() causes the link named from to be renamed as to. If to exists, > it is first removed. Both from and to must be of the same type (that is, > both directories or both non-directories), and must reside on the same > file system. > > rename() guarantees that if to already exists, an instance of to will al- > ways exist, even if the system should crash in the middle of the opera- > tion.
