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From: Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>
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On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:50:23PM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 03 Aug 2001, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> > 
> > > To fill in more of the table, Qmail does:
> > > 
> > >   fd = open(tmp)
> > >   write(fd)
> > >   fsync(fd)
> > >   link(tmp,final)
> > >   close(fd)
> > 
> > http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/reliability.html
> 
> ...which is consistent.  Qmail is assuming that the link() is
> synchronous, as it was back in the "Good Old Days" of stock FFS.

Which, from my reading of the archives, even BSD folk say is a "Bad 
Thing(tm)."

mrc

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