On Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 20:02:44 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:
The standard way is to copy the source to a temporary file on
the same file system as the target file followed by hardlinking
Correction: should be renaming.
Here's an implementation in Python (3):
https://github.com/nordlow/conta
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 07:56:52PM +, Per Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 10:57:08 UTC, FreeSlave wrote:
> >
> > Not sure about renaming but copying is not atomic on Posix because
> > it does not handle interruption by signal. I opened issue about that
> >
On Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 19:56:52 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:
On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 10:57:08 UTC, FreeSlave wrote:
Not sure about renaming but copying is not atomic on Posix
because it does not handle interruption by signal. I opened
issue about that https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi
On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 10:57:08 UTC, FreeSlave wrote:
Not sure about renaming but copying is not atomic on Posix
because it does not handle interruption by signal. I opened
issue about that https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17296
The standard way is to copy the source to a tempora
On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 08:32:56 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
What's the status of atomicity of file-copying and -moving
(renaming) using std.file on different platforms?
Niall has a good talk about this on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhRWMGBjlO8
On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 08:32:56 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
What's the status of atomicity of file-copying and -moving
(renaming) using std.file on different platforms?
For renaming that's a good question, but for copying, no-one
should make atomicity guarantees. It's inherently non-atomic, and
i
On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 08:32:56 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
What's the status of atomicity of file-copying and -moving
(renaming) using std.file on different platforms?
Not sure about renaming but copying is not atomic on Posix
because it does not handle interruption by signal. I opened issue
abo
What's the status of atomicity of file-copying and -moving
(renaming) using std.file on different platforms?
