> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 31 Chalmers Road [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge CB1 3SZ +44 1223 570179 (after 14:00 only, please!) _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
