bug#6397: 24.0.50; `make-directory' return value

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> I suppose that's a legitimate point in the abstract, but highly unlikely in
> practice.  And there is probably some way (file attributes? permissions?) of
> making any created directories invisible/inaccessible during the transaction.

Nope.  There isn't.

You often see this sort of problem in web server caches, where you have
a gazillion processes all trying to create variants on the same
directory structures.  This may fail because two processes tries to
create /var/tmp/cache/foo/bar/zot at the same time, for instance.
Trying to unwind this in a general fashion is impossible, and must be
left to a higher level to determine what to do.

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