Recent content by shibboleth

ah yes. using truss, it seems to be the case it's a direct kernel/system call, and not a forked-to-unix-mv call. mystery remains as to why immediately following a reported failure to rename a subsequent rename always succeeds. sadly, the design must stand; so off i kluge. thanks for...

right, sorry. ESS: IBM's implementation of a very large enterprise storage "array". i agree rename should be a vanilla syscall, but i think it's forking. my recent experience w/ similar coding in java has indicated you can choose whether or not to block at this call. because this is a c++...

on an ESS, rename will occasionally report successful status, but this is misleading as one particular symptom seems to suggest: in my application, the next action after a rename is to get a file handle, and rarely this will result in "file not found". the same application is run on a single...