On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:17 am, Ben Finney wrote: > Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> writes: > >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3222341/how-to-rename-without-race-conditions >> >> and from a quick test it appears to work on Linux: > > By “works on Linux”, I assume you mean “works on filesystems that use > inodes and hard links”. That is not true for all filesystems, even on > Linux.
Indeed it is not, and we're often very sloppy about describing file system differences as if they were OS differences. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list