On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 19:29 +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > 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?
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=172190 Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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