hasufell / hsfm

FileManager written in haskell
https://hasufell.github.io/hsfm/
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persistence problems #38

Open hasufell opened 8 years ago

hasufell commented 8 years ago

Filesystem is not persistent... a regular file could be a directory a moment later without our functions knowing yet, unless they call low-level posix functions which might then either fail or do unexpected things.

A few concrete things:

edit: some work done in https://github.com/hasufell/hsfm/commit/48edf7d47bf861c561ae0e7bc338af2f19905d9a

hasufell commented 8 years ago

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/FileSyncProblem