Re: Ring Problem

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <mailbox@gunnar.cc>]

"James S. Huggins (dot com)" wrote:
> 
> And here I would have thought that the standard approach would have
> been to write a new file to a dummy name and, upon successful
> completion, to then rename the old file and then rename the new
> file, and upon successful completion, to then delete the old file.
> 
> But maybe I'm just paranoid.
Not exactly, but maybe exaggeratedly cautious. That's not how it's done
normally. But backup taking is common practice. ;)
/ Gunnar