On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 08:15:12PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> In fact my intention is to implement the move as a rename(2) and to barf
> an error if it fails.  I'm sure as heck not going to call mv(1), nor am
> I going to implement an internal file copy.

is rename(2) an atomic operation?

> > how does the processing program avoid polling the logfile depot?
> 
> If it were me it wouldn't poll -- it would be invoked once a minute by
> cron and it would exit cleanly, quickly and silently if there were no
> files ready to process.

how is that not a form of polling?

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