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+--- safecat.1 2000/11/21 08:57:15 1.1.1.1
++++ safecat.1 2000/11/21 10:25:44 1.2
+@@ -80,9 +80,9 @@
+ and
+ .IR destdir ,
+ and exits unless both directories exist and are writable.
+-Second, it
+-.B stat()s
+-the name
++Second, it attempts to
++.B open()
++exclusively the file
+ .BR tempdir/\fItime.pid.host ,
+ where
+ .I time
+@@ -91,22 +91,21 @@
+ is the program's process ID,
+ and
+ .I host
+-is the host name.
++is the host name. The exclusive
++.B open()
++will fail if the file already exists.
+ Third, if
+-.B stat()
+-returned anything other than ENOENT,
++.B open()
++returned EEXIST (the file already exists),
+ the program sleeps for two seconds, updates
+ .IR time ,
+ and tries the
+-.B stat()
++.B open()
+ again, a limited number of times.
+ Fourth, the program
+-creates
+-.BR tempdir/\fItime.pid.host .
+-Fifth, the program
+ .I NFS-writes
+ the message to the file.
+-Sixth, the program
++Fifth, the program
+ .BR link() s
+ the file to
+ .BR destdir/\fItime.pid.host .