On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:38:46AM +0100, Jordi Prats wrote:
> > THe main advantage of the second method is that it's atomic. Either the file
> > is replaced, or it isn't. Thus other users/programs which accesss the file
> > never see intermediate results. (also the case if the program dies, or the
> > system is reset).
>
> Just curious...How is done that?There's a system call to do this replacement?
>
Yes. It's called rename(). Run "man 2 rename" to see its man page.
- Ted
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