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Can you develop a file format plus API that is ACID compliant in C?
by bordercases 9y ago
Can you develop a file format plus API that is ACID compliant in C?
- elvinyung 9y agoCareful with that word ("ACID"), it's ridiculously easy to get screwed by the filesystem arbitrarily lying about things like the order of system calls: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2801719 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2801719
- jmalicki 9y agoThe file system does not lie, it just does not provide guarantees of ordering.