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Re: Rename, delete and move current buffer and file


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Rename, delete and move current buffer and file
Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 08:45:28 -0700
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On 05/11/2018 08:33 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
That method has been obsolete for decades.  POSIX requires rename to be
atomic.
Even when moving from one directory to another?

Yes, that requirement has been in POSIX ever since POSIX was introduced; I just now checked my printed copy of IEEE Std 1003.1-1988.




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