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- From: strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: Re: ELVIS WARNING - LOST CLUSTERS ON PC's
- Message-ID: <3280@gmdzi.UUCP>
- Date: 1 Sep 90 08:07:32 GMT
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- tim@delluk.uucp (Tim Wright) writes:
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- >In <689@aut.UUCP> nbladt@aut.UUCP (Norbert Bladt) writes:
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- >>tjr@cbnewsc.att.com (thomas.j.roberts) writes:
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- >>>Following up to my previous posting on successfully building elvis:
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- (Discussion about temporary files, lost clusters etc deleted)
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- >This style of programming is *perfectly* valid under UNIX. It is part
- >of the UNIX filesystem semantics and is a good way of creating a
- >temporary file that nobody can mess up (excepting race conditions),
- >even without the BSD-style protected tmp directories. It also avoids
- >leaving the temporary file around in the case of the process
- >receiving a kill -9. However, as you noted, this causes problems
- >elsewhere (although what DOS does just shows how poor DOS is). NFS has
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- A really perfect argument. MSDOS filesystem semantics are different from
- Unix filesystem semantics. This shows how poor DOS is. Oh well...
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- Wolfgang Strobl
- #include <std.disclaimer.hpp>
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