[RFC] race-free-rename ?

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 10:02 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
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> Robert Collins wrote:
> > So, for packs, I'd like a rename() which is guaranteed race-free. That
> > is, it should fail if it cannot atomically rename the source to the
> > destination (e.g. if the destination already exists and the fs does not
> > support rename-over-the-top).
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> > thoughts? comments on how to expose it?
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> > -Rob
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> I thought that is what we have for Transport.rename (versus Transport.move).

Looks like rename is it, and I'm already using it. Yay.

-Rob
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