[OpenAFS] Qmail over AFS

[Cees de Groot]

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> said:
>> Wouldn't rename() work just as well? I never really looked at it, but on
>> reading the description, I don't see why it is necessary to link() from
>> tmp/ to new/.
>
>rename() removes the destination file if it already exists.  link()
>doesn't.  That's why maildirs use link().
>
Ah - thanks for pointing that out. I'm doing so much high-level-language
programming these days, that my Unix system call semantics knowledge is
quickly getting rusty :-)

Still, with the guaranteed globally unique naming algorithm for creating the
file in the first place, I'd be happy to run qmail on AFS with link() patched
to rename()..


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