On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 16:38 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
If the kernel has an atomic rename system call then it can be done
without race, if not that will be a very serious issue.
It has an atomic rename for files; but you can't atomically change a
directory that has content. Or am I missing something? Not to mention
this would break things like RPM verification.