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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Sqlite RpmDB
From:       Panu Matilainen <pmatilai () redhat ! com>
Date:       2020-03-26 13:29:50
Message-ID: 164069c1-87ec-a031-3b12-630edfe92d74 () redhat ! com
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On 3/26/20 2:20 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 07:38:33AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
>> Since RPM 4.14, RPM creates a new directory, writes the database
>> content there, then renames the directory when it's done.
> 
> Does it use renameat2(RENAME_EXCHANGE)?

No, rpm doesn't use many Linux-specific calls and this is no exception. 
In fact it doesn't use any of the *at() family calls directly either.

This is actually the first I hear about that system call which indeed 
seems highly useful for rpm, so thanks for the tip :)

	- Panu -
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