From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263745AbTDXQeX (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:34:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263764AbTDXQeX (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:34:23 -0400 Received: from chiark.greenend.org.uk ([193.201.200.170]:39179 "EHLO chiark.greenend.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263745AbTDXQeW (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:34:22 -0400 From: Ian Jackson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16040.5351.773075.771381@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:46:31 +0100 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: rename("a","b") succeeds multiple times race In-Reply-To: <20030424143058.GC23247@spackhandychoptubes.co.uk> References: <16039.53523.533498.354359@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <20030424143058.GC23247@spackhandychoptubes.co.uk> X-Mailer: VM 7.03 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Sykes writes ("Re: rename("a","b") succeeds multiple times race"): > In rename(2): Linux manpages are hardly a definitive reference for the desired behaviour of system calls ! Unfortunately SuSv2 and v3 are unhelpfully vague. Ian.