[9fans] renaming to an existing file

[9fans] renaming to an existing file

[Roman V Shaposhnik]

I've just realized that in 9P the wstat would refuse
to rename an entry if a target name already exists.

So how can I atomically replace one file with another
one, so that during the operation clients opening
it would not fail?

In POSIX rename gives you such an atomicity:
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If the old argument points to the pathname of a file that is not a
directory, the new argument shall not point to the pathname of a
directory. If the link named by the new argument exists, it shall be
removed and old renamed to new. In this case, a link named new shall
remain visible to other processes throughout the renaming operation and
refer either to the file referred to by new or old before the operation
began.
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How can I achieve the same result with 9P?

Thanks,
Roman.

Re: [9fans] renaming to an existing file

[Russ Cox]

> How can I achieve the same result with 9P?

You can't.  (Redefine 9P.)

Russ