On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> Anyway, I don't think I'll have any problems at all with the config file
> being zero length now. I've modified Exim to get a shared lock on the
> config file before reading it (which is probably quite expensive but I
> can live with it), and the program which updates it gets an exclusive
> lock, so there shouldn't be any conflicts, if I've understood everything
> right. (Seems to be working anyway.)
Surely you don't need to go to that extreme. It should be safe to edit
the config file to a new file, and then rename it. Renaming is an atomic
operation.
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