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Re: mkdir() and thread safety()

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From	Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com>
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Subject	Re: mkdir() and thread safety()
Date	Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:23:50 +0100
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David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> writes:
> The operation starts when the application calls 'mkdir'. The standard
> only requires the operation to fail with EEXIST if the directory
> exists before the operation starts.

An additional error in here I'd like to point out: Code which runs
after mkdir was called cannot check if such a file existed before
mkdir was called. It would need to be able to travel back in time for
this.

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Re: mkdir() and thread safety() David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> - 2011-03-30 14:53 -0700
  Re: mkdir() and thread safety() Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-03-30 23:20 +0100
    Re: mkdir() and thread safety() Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-03-31 11:17 +0100
  Re: mkdir() and thread safety() Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-03-31 11:14 +0100
    Re: mkdir() and thread safety() George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2011-03-31 19:13 -0400
      Re: mkdir() and thread safety() Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-04-01 16:52 +0100
        Re: mkdir() and thread safety() George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2011-04-03 13:59 -0400
          Re: mkdir() and thread safety() Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-04-08 23:59 +0100
    Re: mkdir() and thread safety() David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> - 2011-04-01 12:22 -0700
      Re: mkdir() and thread safety() Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-04-01 21:03 +0100
        Re: mkdir() and thread safety() David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> - 2011-04-01 14:27 -0700
      Re: mkdir() and thread safety() Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-04-01 21:23 +0100
        Re: mkdir() and thread safety() David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> - 2011-04-01 14:28 -0700

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