From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2017-06-30T08:19:32+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:81846] Re: [Ruby trunk Feature#13696] Add exchange and noreplace options to File.rename

nobu@ruby-lang.org wrote:
> Is "atomically" important?
> If no, it'd be possible to implement without kernel support.

Yes, atomicity is an important distinction.

We should not try to implement this non-atomically without kernel
support; it will quietly break code which expects the atomicity.

I am recalling similar problems around posix_fallocate in glibc:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15661

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