From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-04-30T22:58:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Read and re-write file with one open?

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Adam Bender <abender@gmail.com> wrote:

> I see the potential for catastrophe with the way I suggested, however, there
> is potential for catastrophe here if there is already an
> "origName-edited.txt" file (I know, slim chance, but you never know).  You
> could get around this by generating new file names until you found one that
> didn't exist, or writing to /tmp, of course.  I think I'll switch to Greg
> Brown's suggestion.  Does Tempfile guarantee that it won't overwrite an
> existing file?

Yes, Tempfile avoids file collisions.

-greg