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Right; so if you aren't sure about the filesystem, rename is the simplest most portable thing, plus the dumb workarounds. In practice I've never actually seen t
by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Right; so if you aren't sure about the filesystem, rename is the simplest most portable thing, plus the dumb workarounds. In practice I've never actually seen the race condition mentioned, but I'm sure it happens on large enough scales.
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- inopinatus 3y agoThis is not a race condition. Any filesystem syscall can fail, and not always spectacularly. I can't recommend using rename for moving files into place, except as a fallback for filesystems where hard links are unavailable.