On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Shachar Shemesh <shac...@debian.org> wrote: > If my (extremely leaky) memory serves me right, Windows has it. It's called > "delete and then rename". It is not atomic (since when do Windows care about > not breaking stuff), but it does exactly that. > > If you delete a file and quickly (yes, this feature is time based) rename a > different file to the same name, the new file will receive all metadata > information the old file had (including owner, permissions etc.) > > Just thought I'd share this little nugget to show you how much worse > non-posix has it.
You're kidding me. Got any source to back this up? Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktik8ywzth67auoukrxmt2w1urmpgahnbg4k9s...@mail.gmail.com
