Subject: Re: design problem with restore(8)?
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@telstra.com.au>
From: David Brownlee <david@mono.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/17/1996 12:31:05
On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> My proposal is (which I'll send-pr unless I get a good case against):
> - all operations except 'r' and 'R' use a temporary
> per-process filename, (i.e, operations which aren't intended
> to be restarted)
> - 'r' and 'R' only use the dumpdate as the temporary filename
> (so they can be restarted and pick up the correct bit)
> - document the above.
>
> This doesn't break current things and fixes up 99% of cases where
> sharing the tempname causes problems.
>
Sounds good to me.
When -R/-r are given you might want to spit out a messages to
stderr warning the user about running concurrent restores.
David/abs (david@mono.org)
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