On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:58:09 -0400
John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote:
I have a use case at work where I need to be able to update a symlink that
points to a directory atomically (so that it points to a new directory). To
give a conrete example, suppose I have two directories 'foo' and
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:58:09AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
I have a use case at work where I need to be able to update a symlink
that points to a directory atomically (so that it points to a new
directory). To give a conrete example, suppose I have two directories
'foo' and 'bar', and a
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 6:02:47 am Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:58:09AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
I have a use case at work where I need to be able to update a symlink
that points to a directory atomically (so that it points to a new
directory). To give a
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 08:09:20AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 6:02:47 am Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
GNU coreutils mv (and also cp/install/ln) appears to use
-T/--no-target-directory for a similar purpose: -T prevents the target
being treated as a directory (whether
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 3:32:13 pm Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 08:09:20AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 6:02:47 am Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
GNU coreutils mv (and also cp/install/ln) appears to use
-T/--no-target-directory for a similar
I have a use case at work where I need to be able to update a symlink that
points to a directory atomically (so that it points to a new directory). To
give a conrete example, suppose I have two directories 'foo' and 'bar', and a
symlink 'a' that I wish to atomically flip from 'foo' to 'bar'.
