Rename file without overwriting existing files
Ben Finney
ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Mon Jan 30 19:17:56 EST 2017
Peter Otten <__peter__ at 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.
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