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Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated)

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Date 2013-04-13 13:05 +1000
Subject Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated)
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.543.1365822365.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> But most of the time, there's no point. If you actually care about what
> happens in the event of an unclean shutdown, you typically also need to
> sync the directory, otherwise the file's contents will get sync'd but the
> file's very existence might not be.

Or just store your content in a PostgreSQL database, and let it worry
about all the platform-specific details of how to fsync reliably.

ChrisA

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shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 11:12 -0700
  Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-04-11 18:53 +0000
    Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 12:07 -0700
      Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-04-11 19:55 +0000
        Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-12 00:06 +0000
          Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-04-12 11:15 +1000
          Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2013-04-11 18:33 -0700
            Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 23:32 -0700
              Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 23:53 -0700
                Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2013-04-12 00:53 -0700
              Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 23:53 -0700
              Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-04-12 18:26 +1000
                Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-12 02:18 -0700
                Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-12 19:22 +1000
                Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-12 05:07 -0700
                Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-12 13:18 +0100
                Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-12 05:07 -0700
                Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-12 02:18 -0700
                Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-12 10:57 -0400
                Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-12 10:54 -0400
            Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 23:32 -0700
              Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-12 10:47 -0400
          Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 23:27 -0700
          Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-12 10:51 -0400
          Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2013-04-12 08:49 -0700
          Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2013-04-13 03:33 +0100
            Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-13 13:05 +1000
            [OT] Lying hard drives [was Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated)] Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-13 03:17 +0000
              Re: [OT] Lying hard drives [was Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated)] Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-13 13:43 +1000
        Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 23:25 -0700
          Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-12 17:32 +1000
          Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-04-12 10:48 -0400

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