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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