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Re: IDL 5.6: are file_copy and file_move atomic? [message #34039]

Thu, 13 February 2003 11:40

Mark Hadfield
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"Jonathan Greenberg" <greenberg@ucdavis.edu> wrote in message
news:BA702564.136B1%greenberg@ucdavis.edu...

> Anyone know if the new file_copy and file_move routines in
> IDL 5.6 are atomic processes?

They do seem to be on Windows 2000. They can't be interrupted from the
keyboard; if the source file is unreadable then the operation aborts without
creating a destination file.

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Mark Hadfield "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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