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Beware: rename() isn't atomic on Mac OS X: http://www.weirdnet.nl/apple/rename.html http://www.weirdnet.nl/apple/rename.html

• jrockway 17y ago
  Wow, this breaks a lot of UNIX.
• jacquesm 17y ago
  What's weird is the timeline on that, if you see when it was reported and when it was still present. Surely it can't be that hard to fix this in a proper way ?
  • rbanffy 17y ago
    Could be something with HFS+
    • geocar 17y ago
      [Apparently not](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/amo3x/on_how_rename_is_broken_in_mac_os_x/c0ie89p http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/amo3x/on_how_re...). That's pretty embarrassing.