ELVIS WARNING - LOST CLUSTERS ON PC's

[Wolfgang Strobl]

tim at delluk.uucp (Tim Wright) writes:

>In <689 at aut.UUCP> nbladt at aut.UUCP (Norbert Bladt) writes:

>>tjr at cbnewsc.att.com (thomas.j.roberts) writes:

>>>Following up to my previous posting on successfully building elvis:

(Discussion about temporary files, lost clusters etc deleted)

>This style of programming is *perfectly* valid under UNIX. It is part
>of the UNIX filesystem semantics and is a good way of creating a
>temporary file that nobody can mess up (excepting race conditions),
>even without the BSD-style protected tmp directories. It also avoids
>leaving the temporary file around in the case of the process
>receiving a kill -9. However, as you noted, this causes problems
>elsewhere (although what DOS does just shows how poor DOS is). NFS has

A really perfect argument. MSDOS filesystem semantics are different from
Unix filesystem semantics. This shows how poor DOS is. Oh well...

Wolfgang Strobl
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