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tedunangst on Aug 14, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Things Unix can do atomically (2010)

The way to deal with link() on NFS is to stat() the old file after and see if it has two links. That's how you know you won.

js2 on Aug 14, 2023 [–]

Indeed:

https://github.com/jaysoffian/dotlock/

I think I first learned that trick from procmail and then confirmed it with the NFS spec? Been a long time...

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