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Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Posted Mar 13, 2009 15:41 UTC (Fri) by qg6te2 (guest, #52587)
In reply to: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem by jbailey
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Hang on, comparing the changing functionality of glibc, windows, etc to a file system is misleading. Ensuring that "open-write-close-rename" does what it says is a reasonable requirement, even if POSIX is silent about it.


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