From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rename, delete and move current buffer and file Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 08:45:28 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <069aa767-6d25-c281-6edd-bd45a522ae30@cs.ucla.edu> References: <878t8q6434.fsf@linux-m68k.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526053472 31551 195.159.176.226 (11 May 2018 15:44:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 15:44:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 Cc: Radon Rosborough , emacs-devel To: Stefan Monnier , Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 11 17:44:28 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fHADb-00087Z-MI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 May 2018 17:44:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52451 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fHAFi-0006Ax-Bs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 May 2018 11:46:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51450) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fHAEl-00065A-GR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2018 11:45:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fHAEd-0002FN-Tw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2018 11:45:39 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:38396) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fHAEd-0002EZ-MB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2018 11:45:31 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1520F1601EE; Fri, 11 May 2018 08:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id aUwtaqLp7SaV; Fri, 11 May 2018 08:45:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 685861604FD; Fri, 11 May 2018 08:45:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id PT_bzJ5OK5bJ; Fri, 11 May 2018 08:45:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4C7DC1601EE; Fri, 11 May 2018 08:45:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225239 Archived-At: On 05/11/2018 08:33 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> That method has been obsolete for decades. POSIX requires rename to be >> atomic. > Even when moving from one directory to another? Yes, that requirement has been in POSIX ever since POSIX was introduced; I just now checked my printed copy of IEEE Std 1003.1-1988.