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Oh crap, I've never noticed that (or maybe I did many years ago and promptly ignored that because it wasn't what I was looking for at that time). Well, there go

by jhgb 5y ago

Oh crap, I've never noticed that (or maybe I did many years ago and promptly ignored that because it wasn't what I was looking for at that time). Well, there goes the whole idea. Symlinks are of no use here, or at least I don't see how they help.

remram 5y ago
If you know in advance that you'll need to switch a directory atomically, you can make `dir` a symlink to `dir_v1`. Then you can atomically replace it with a symlink to `dir_v2`. This doesn't really solve the situation we're discussing though.