[issue8604] Adding an atomic FS write API

[Charles-François Natali]

Charles-François Natali <neologix at free.fr> added the comment:

> Ah, it's a temporary file indeed.
> But does that mean you can't inspect your logs in real time? All log
> files I have ever seen are available under their final name while they
> are still being written to.
>

Yes, logging was a poor example :-)

> And I understand your point about it being available in io or some io
> submodule (not a 3-level deep one though :-)). Perhaps you want to ask
> on python-dev?

OK, I'll try that.

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