Timeline for Correct locking in shell scripts?
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| Oct 4, 2011 at 22:12 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @maxschlepzig RFC 1813 does not explicitly call out for mkdir to be atomic (it does for rename). In practice, it is known that some implementations are not. Related: an interesting thread, including a contribution by the author of GNU arch. | |
| Oct 4, 2011 at 21:05 | comment | added | maxschlepzig | Ok, but I could not find informations whether mkdir() over NFS (>=3) is standardized to be atomic. | |
| Oct 4, 2011 at 19:37 | history | answered | glenn jackman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |