Human Folly about “atomicity”

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• Is it good practice to use mkdir as file based locking on Linux (stackoverflow.com):

  a disadvantage of mkdir-based #atomicity is that your lock directory survives process crashes

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• Msg20456 (mail-archive.com):

  mkdir lacks #atomicity over #NFS #concurrency

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• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of #atomicity in Unix #concurrency

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• Rename (weirdnet.nl):

  #Apple fucked up #atomicity of rename() in OSX from 02008 until 02011. #concurrency

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• Things Unix can do Atomically (rcrowley.org):

  list of things like mkdir which are safely atomic on Unix. #concurrency #atomicity

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