From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-01-31T05:25:15+09:00
Subject: Re: check for and if not there, create direcory and file

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Ryan Leavengood wrote:

> On 1/30/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
>>
>> one cannot both check and/or create a dir in an atomic fashion.  in fact, one
>> cannot even create a dir in an atomic fashion on some filesystems.  about the
>> best you can do is
>
> While this is true, I think it only matters when one is dealing with
> multi-process and/or multi-threaded code, which I doubt the original poster
> is. But I know that multi-processing is about all you do Ara, so I guess it
> is hard to forget lessons like this! ;)

heh - i probably do get a little pedantic with that stuff - but it's so hard
to debug i just try to avoid it all together!  ;-)

-a
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