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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Subject: Re: [9fans] fuse bashing
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:18:40 -0800
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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> Thus an application that does it's work on a temporary file and  
> then does the 'unlink(foo); rename(tmp,foo)' dance

And before anyone flames: yes, I've run into UNIXen where the unlink  
was necessary :-P

--lyndon