From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-02-02T07:23:50+09:00
Subject: Re: check for and if not there, create direcory and file

konsu wrote:
> hello,
> 
> a related question: how to make this atomic to avoid race conditions:
> 
> Dir.mkdir(".timeclock") unless File.exist?(".timeclock")

There is always:

require 'fileutils'
FileUtils.mkdir_p(".timeclock")

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