From: Brent Callaghan (Brent.Callaghan@eng.sun.com)
Date: 09/23/99-12:30:03 PM Z
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 10:30:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brent Callaghan <Brent.Callaghan@eng.sun.com>
Message-Id: <199909231730.KAA22056@terra.eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: RENAME
G. Allen Morris III writes:
> I would like to add a mechanism that would inform clients that
> filehandles go stale after a rename.
>
> The client could then update any openfiles that it renamed with:
>
> PUTFH (source dir)
> RENAME "a" (dest dir) "b"
> SAVEFH
> PUTFH (dest dir)
> LOOKUPFH "b" ("a"'s filehandle) # a new operation
> GETFH
> RESTOREFH
I don't see any advantage with a LOOKUPFH operation
tell you that the filehandle is different.
Why not do a regular LOOKUP, return the filehandle
unconditionally and have the client use it ? If
it's a new filehandle that's good. If it's the same
old filehandle - no harm done.
Brent
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