Re: [offtopic] BitKeeper & distributions, please read
Raul Miller (rdm@test.legislate.com)
Sun, 4 Oct 1998 21:13:17 -0400
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Having used CVS to manage machines its mostly been issues of atomicity
> that have come up. Some programs for example see the mtime on a file
> change and helpfully reload it. If the write of the new data hasnt
> finished bad things can occur. (This btw is true of vi as much as CVS
> but with vi you are at least around to catch it).
The usual solution to this problem is to create the file under a different
name then rename it into place. Presumably, CVS could be convinced to
do this.
--
Raul
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