On May 15, 2010, at 11:04, Kris Buelens wrote:

> One pipeline that writes two times to a given file is asking for trouble.
> At least, that was always my experience.
>  
Thanks.  I'll avoid it.  Also because of COPYFILE UNPACK's better
error reporting than PIPE UNPACK's.

>> I toyed with the idea of:
>> 
>>   PIPE < fn PLCDP I | FBLOCK 1024 | > fn PLCD I FIXED 1024 | UNPACK | > fn 
>> PLCD I
>> 
>> ... letting the final implied rename clean up the FIXED 1024 file which
>> is created only for error checking.  But:
>> 
>> o Is there any guarantee of the order in which the renames occur?
>>  
I suppose it may depend on whether the earlier stage sooner
renames the target file or severs its output.

-- gil

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