Hammer: Transactional file updates

[Dmitri Nikulin]

I just stumbled across two old posts by Jeff Roberson:

http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/20707.html
http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/21014.html

They relate to file IO semantics across processes, and while it's not
directly relevant to this discussion, certainly anyone interested in
such low level details would enjoy those posts.

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Dmitri Nikulin

Centre for Synchrotron Science
Monash University
Victoria 3800, Australia