[Python-Dev] requirements for moving __import__ over to importlib?

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Fri Feb 10 22:29:31 CET 2012


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On 02/10/2012 03:38 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> Changes in any fashion to the directory. Do filesystems atomically 
> update the mtime of a directory when they commit a change? Otherwise 
> we have a potential race condition.

Hmm, maybe I misundersand you.  In POSIX land, the only thing which
changes the mtime of a directory is linking / unlinking / renaming a
file:  changes to individual files aren't detectable by examining their
containing directory's stat().


Tres.
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