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Unix rename behaviourby BrowserUk (Patriarch) |
on May 03, 2006 at 02:01 UTC ( [id://547034]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
BrowserUk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: Under *nix, if two concurrent (Perl) processes have open handles to filea and one of the processes renames fileb over filea, when the second process next reads via it's open handle, does it read
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