Re: [leafnode-list] writeactive() not updating mtime?

[Matthias Andree <ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Dietrich <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> In principle this is already done:
>     strcpy( newfile, ".overview.XXXXXX" );

> #ifdef HAVE_MKSTEMP

This does not belong in real code, but in a separate object file.

> So the corruption Stefan Wiens reported must have happened during
> 
> if ( rename( newfile, ".overview" ) ) {

rename is atomic, and only operates on file names, so it's quite hard to
believe rename would cause corruption.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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