Rename file without overwriting existing files

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:17 am, Ben Finney wrote:

> Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> writes:
> 
>>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3222341/how-to-rename-without-race-conditions
>>
>> and from a quick test it appears to work on Linux:
> 
> By “works on Linux”, I assume you mean “works on filesystems that use
> inodes and hard links”. That is not true for all filesystems, even on
> Linux.


Indeed it is not, and we're often very sloppy about describing file system
differences as if they were OS differences.




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