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readdir vs. unlink, etc.

Paul Jarc

2004-01-23, 5:12 pm

If I'm in the middle of getting a directory listing, and some entries
are created and removed by another process at the same time, then is
it at all possible that readdir() would fail to find one of the
entries that had been there all along? Are there any real systems
that do that?

paul