At Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:30:08 -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote: > 15 minutes ago, Matthew Flatt wrote: > > Is there anything else in the main distribution that is uses > > `rename-file-or-directory' for atomic update? > > Is the handin-server's use kosher? There are three uses of it, and > the only one that looks suspicious is the last one, where "ATTEMPT" is > renamed to "SUCCESS-0".
Those are directories, and you can't move to an existing directory name on any platform, right? I think the handin server probably depends on non-concurrent handins for a given account, though, since it shuffles many files and directories around. Probably it should use some sort of lock to enforce non-concurrency. _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
