Is HDB locking safe?

[Peter da Silva]

In article <4024 at rtifs1.UUCP> trt at rti.rti.org (Thomas Truscott) writes:
> (a) A "sleep(1);" is not enough to avoid a race on a very busy system.

No sleep is ever enough. The system could simply be busier than you ever
imagined. You don't solve a race problem by narrowing the window: try
checking the return value of the "unlink": that's the point of failure.
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