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* The Natural Philosopher <
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| On 15/09/2023 16:12, vallor wrote:
| > Meanwhile, if you want to avoid locking your file, you might want to
| > write
| > a fresh file with a unique name, then rename() it,
| > which -- please correct me if I`m wrong -- should replace
| > the desired file atomically.
>
| I think the consensus is that it does.
>
| Presumably if the read process has the old file open, that will be
| valid until it closes it?
On Linux: yes. Once a process has a file open, it sees the `old`
contents if the file is removed from disk.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2028874/what-happens-to-an-open-file-handle-
on-linux-if-the-pointed-file-gets-moved-or-d
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