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Re: Reworking liblocker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Mon Dec 22 20:13:03 2008
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:10:08 -0500
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
Cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu, athena10@mit.edu
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:20:17PM -0600, Evan Broder wrote:
> When a symlink in /mit is deleted, cache that deletion for 10
> seconds ... should give humans enough time to do it by hand, if they
> so desire.
What about `ln -nsf`? Does that work? I expect it does stat, unlink,
symlink. If it does work, we may want to say that's what humans
should be using. It's simpler from the user perspective, because you
can pretend it's one atomic action. Then the timeout needn't be so
long as 10 seconds.
Greg
