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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:29:11 +0000
From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 wiping itself?
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Instead of delete and later replace, how about create unique-named temp new file then immediately rename to target name?
If rename is atomic then nothing could ever get lost.