Claudio Natoli wrote: > > > > Claudio, how does this handle renames if the file is open by someone > > else? Does this remove the need to loop over the rename? > > To be honest, I don't know that it does. [Will report back later.] > > Two points though: > > a) This could doesn't alleviate the needs for dirmod.c, as far as I'm aware. > That seems to be there for a different reason, namely that there appears to > be some timing issue between creating a file and issuing an unlink/rename. > > b) Do we have a case where rename's can block because of the file being held > open by another process? I haven't tripped over this yet...
Agreed, we still need dirmod.c in case someone has opened it using a non-unix mode. My only question was whether this new mode makes rename possible on a target file opened by another backend. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
