Re: Race-condition ?

[David Kastrup]

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

> 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...

movemail in Emacs?

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