POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES

Posted Sep 17, 2009 20:38 UTC (Thu) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES by nye
Parent article: POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES

If you want both the write and the rename to happen, you'd have to fsync() the file *and* the directory. Which means that the open(), write(), fsync(the_file), close(), rename() sequence provides exactly the semantics you describe.

POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES

Posted Sep 21, 2009 1:52 UTC (Mon) by efexis (guest, #26355) [Link]

That's the point though... that's /not/ what people in the discussion want, or are asking for.

POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES

Posted Sep 21, 2009 13:45 UTC (Mon) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link]

*speechless*