refactoring and noting mv/rename after the fact

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Thu Apr 14 18:45:11 BST 2005


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John Yates wrote:
| On Monday, April 11, 2005, Aaron Bentley wrote:
|
|
|>Ultimately,
|>rename(2)s don't always mean what they look like (because they're used
|>to atomically update files and such), so monitoring rename(2) wouldn't
|>be any help.
|
|
| Not to throw cold water on the notion of monitoring operations but to the
| extent that bzr aspires to control more than just text files maintained
| with simple Unix tools monitoring as I understand it is likely to find it
| "rough sledding".

| The MS Office Big 3 each
| follow a different paradigm to perform a reliable update.  These vary from
| MS Office release to release.  Here is what we found for the most recent
| release at that time (circa 2001):

This is pretty much what I was saying.

Aaron
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