atomicfile - should it use transports?

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 16:17 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 
> The idea is that 'transport.put()' is considered atomic. So for the
> LocalTransport it uses AtomicFile, for sftp it puts to a temporary
> file
> and uses fancy_rename.
> 
> You can invert the dependencies, but that is the design of the system.

Theres a branch out there that changes put and append to return file
objects - at which point atomic file for 'put' operations becomes
useful.

Rob

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