From: charlie bowman <cbowmanschool@...>
Date: 2006-01-31T06:11:38+09:00
Subject: Re: check for and if not there, create direcory and file

Thanks for the tip! This is just a personal timekeeper for me.  But I 
will keep that in mind if I need to do any threaded apps.

unknown wrote:
> 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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