On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Daniel Brown <parasane@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Andrew Ballard <aballard@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
>
> > In addition to the added time, aren't there any problems with race
> > conditions if two users try to create a file at the same time and each
> > user's script tries to clean the same files at the same time?
>
> With output error buffering (or 'rm -f {FILENAME}') there wouldn't
> be. If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, it
> doesn't make a sound at all. Such is the same with error reporting:
> if I'm not told an error occurred, then it didn't. Ignorance is
> bliss. ;-P

What was the name of your company again? blindeyehosting.com? ;-)

Andrew

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Andrew Ballard <aballard@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's a start, but what about a user who never returns? You still want
> some way to clean out those old files, and I think that's the approach
> Thiago was presenting by purging all files older than X
> days/hours/minutes. Such a script would have to scan the entire space
> regardless of "namespace." I think this points us toward cron rather
> than potentially having two simultaneous client processes both looping
> through the same directory trying to delete files.


if everyone had their own sub-directory, the user scripts wouldnt be looping
through the same directory. but it would sure be nice if the hosing company
(wink, wink) provided something everyone would essentially be reproducing
themselves.

-nathan

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Andrew Ballard <aballard@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What was the name of your company again? blindeyehosting.com? ;-)

No, we had to change the name, so we went with a more obscure
reference: piratepatchhosting.name. ;-P

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On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Daniel Brown <parasane@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Andrew Ballard <aballard@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > What was the name of your company again? blindeyehosting.com? ;-)
>
> No, we had to change the name, so we went with a more obscure
> reference: piratepatchhosting.name. ;-P


ive always been partial to brokensoftware.com, but someones actually beaten
me to it :O

-nathan