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Re: How to safely maintain a status file

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Date Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:12:01 +1000
Subject Re: How to safely maintain a status file
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 12, 2:39 pm, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote:
>> Windows's file system layer is not POSIX compatible. For example
>> you can't remove or replace a file while it is opened by a process.
>
> Sounds like a reasonable fail-safe to me.

POSIX says that files and file names are independent. I can open a
file based on its name, delete the file based on its name, and still
have the open file there. When it's closed, it'll be wiped from the
disk.

ChrisA

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Re: How to safely maintain a status file Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-07-12 14:30 +0200
  Re: How to safely maintain a status file Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2012-07-12 15:19 +0200
    Re: How to safely maintain a status file Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-07-12 19:43 +0200
    Re: How to safely maintain a status file Christian Heimes <lists@cheimes.de> - 2012-07-12 20:39 +0200
      Re: How to safely maintain a status file Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-07-12 18:20 -0700
        Re: How to safely maintain a status file Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-13 12:12 +1000
          Re: How to safely maintain a status file Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-13 03:13 +0000
            Re: How to safely maintain a status file Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2012-07-12 23:49 -0400
              Re: How to safely maintain a status file Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-13 04:21 +0000
            Re: How to safely maintain a status file rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com - 2012-07-12 21:26 -0700
              Re: How to safely maintain a status file Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-13 16:02 +1000
              Re: How to safely maintain a status file Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-13 07:14 +0000
                Re: How to safely maintain a status file Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-07-13 13:29 -0400
              RE: How to safely maintain a status file "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-07-13 16:00 +0000
              Re: [Python] RE: How to safely maintain a status file Chris Gonnerman <chris@gonnerman.org> - 2012-07-13 12:27 -0500
              RE: [Python] RE: How to safely maintain a status file "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-07-13 17:59 +0000
                Re: [Python] RE: How to safely maintain a status file Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2012-07-13 20:28 +0200
                Re: [Python] RE: How to safely maintain a status file MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-07-13 20:57 +0100
                Re: [Python] RE: How to safely maintain a status file Christian Heimes <lists@cheimes.de> - 2012-07-13 22:21 +0200
              Re: [Python] RE: How to safely maintain a status file Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-14 04:19 +1000
              RE: How to safely maintain a status file Chris Gonnerman <chris@gonnerman.org> - 2012-07-13 15:15 -0500
                Re: How to safely maintain a status file Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-14 01:53 +0000

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