Trash specification, version 0.1

[Dave Cridland]

On Mon Aug 30 17:09:06 2004, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 15:47, Dave Cridland wrote:
> > the content of the info file anyway. My gut feeling is that you > 
> generally want to handle the trashed file itself first, then add 
> the > metadata, which by definition is less critical to lose.
> 
> Lose? rename is atomical. How would you lose data? Even in the copy 
> case
> if the copy fails you won't delete the source file.
> 
> I think what we decided was to do metadata first, in an atomic way 
> to
> avoid races, and when you have the filename in the info dir you 
> know its
> safe to use that name in the files dir.

No, you're absolutely right, and while *I* might lose data, that's 
because I'm being terminally stupid over this. :-) Forget what I said.

For some reason I had it in my head that there might be occasions 
when you want to do something other than a rename, but I've 
completely forgotten what those occasions might have been now.

Dave.