Received: from spf1.us4.outblaze.com (spf1.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.23]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iAM9mBhL010500 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:48:12 GMT Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by spf1.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECADF5481D for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:48:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CWAt3-0006hl-3k for migo@homemail.com; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 04:53:33 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CWAqN-0006St-Ju for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 04:50:48 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CWAqH-0006RZ-NP for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 04:50:46 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CWAqH-0006Qp-B8 for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 04:50:41 -0500 Received: from [204.152.189.135] (helo=kechara.flame.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CWAhD-0003Sl-5J for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 04:41:19 -0500 Received: (qmail 5724 invoked by uid 323); 22 Nov 2004 09:41:17 -0000 To: gnu-arch-users@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: gnu-arch-users@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [Question] how to preserve multiple file's atomicity ? References: <20041122.144539.71098295.tez@kamihira.com> <878y8uqnco.fsf@flame.org> <20041122.175904.104043386.tez@kamihira.com> From: Matthew Dempsky Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 03:43:04 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20041122.175904.104043386.tez@kamihira.com> (Tez Kamihira's message of "Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:59:04 +0900 (JST)") Message-ID: <87is7yp6c7.fsf@flame.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-BeenThere: gnu-arch-users@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: a discussion list for all things arch-ish List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: gnu-arch-users-bounces+migo=homemail.com@gnu.org Errors-To: gnu-arch-users-bounces+migo=homemail.com@gnu.org Status: RO Content-Length: 944 Lines: 29 Tez Kamihira writes: > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 02:50:15 -0600, Matthew Dempsky said: >> >> Are you asking for something beyond simple atomic commits which arch >> already natively supports? >> > > If I'm correct, arch, and any other SCM's transaction is essentially, > "file appending". What do you mean by "file appending"? > Such operation does not interfere any files that already exists. But > the way I want is "multiple file's atomic modification". It's not > the same. Arch does support multiple file atomic modification natively. Simply modify multiple files between invocations of 'tla commit' and *poof* atomic commits. This has been supported by arch since its inception. _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list Gnu-arch-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/