Re: Race-condition ?

[Lennart Borgman]

Gaëtan LEURENT wrote:

> Now, as for as I can tell, there is no way to move a file asking the
> user what to do if needed and avoid every race-conditions in a Unix-like
> OS. I will try to come with a solution that avoids the worse problems.
>  
That reminds me of that I long ago read someone who found that the most 
interesting piece of programming he had ever done was for implementing 
file move. Unfortunately I do not remember who or where I read this - of 
course...