Re: File locking within zsh?

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-05-11 11:45:21 -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
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> From: "Vincent Lefevre" <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:13 PM
> Subject: Re: File locking within zsh?
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> >On 2006-05-10 01:59:57 -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
> >>Is that better or worse, and why, than  umask 222 ; >file ?
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> >Are you sure that this is guaranteed to work with any NFS server?
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> Not at all sure, never having tried on any nfs mount.

So, it's probably better to use the symbolic link solution (ln -s),
which is guaranteed to be atomic, even on NFS. This is the solution
chosen by Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76431

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