On 2017-05-01 18:40, Gregory Ewing wrote: > The following function should be immune to race conditions > and doesn't use mktemp. > > def templink(destpath): > """Create a hard link to the given file with a unique name. > Returns the name of the link.""" > pid = os.getpid() > i = 1 > while True: > linkpath = "%s-%s-%s" % (destpath, pid, i) > try: > os.link(destpath, linkpath) > except FileExistsError: > i += 1 > else: > break > return linkpath
Ah, this is a good alternative and solves the problem at hand. As a side-note, apparently os.rename() is only atomic on *nix systems, but not on Windows. For the time being, I'm okay with that. Thanks for your assistance! -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
