On 2005-02-01 19:30:12 +0100, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > - Use locking mechanism which works always: Creating a file is > atomar AFAIK. This isn't guaranteed. The symlink syscall can be used as a lock over NFS, and some applications, such as Mozilla, use it. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA