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Author	vstinner
Recipients	Trundle, giampaolo.rodola, pitrou, tarek, vstinner
Date	2010-05-27.12:24:20
SpamBayes Score	0.0014285318
Marked as misclassified	No
Message-id	<[email protected]>
In-reply-to	<[email protected]>

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> Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> added the comment: > > Would you prefer to not define the function instead of writing a pseudo- > > atomic function? > > Your current implementation is useless, since it doesn't achieve anything > new. Besides, if the function isn't atomic, don't name it atomic_XXX. Someone may reimplement it with unlink+rename which is worse :-) But ok, you prefer to not define the function if no real atomic implementation can be written.

> Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> added the comment:
> > Would you prefer to not define the function instead of writing a pseudo-
> > atomic function?
> 
> Your current implementation is useless, since it doesn't achieve anything
> new. Besides, if the function isn't atomic, don't name it atomic_XXX.

Someone may reimplement it with unlink+rename which is worse :-)

But ok, you prefer to not define the function if no real atomic implementation 
can be written.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2010-05-27 12:24:22	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola, tarek, Trundle
2010-05-27 12:24:21	vstinner	link	issue8828 messages
2010-05-27 12:24:20	vstinner	create