adventures in booting

[Colin Walters]

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 16:38 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:

>   If the kernel has an atomic rename system call then it can be done
> without race, if not that will be a very serious issue.

It has an atomic rename for files; but you can't atomically change a
directory that has content.  Or am I missing something?  Not to mention
this would break things like RPM verification.