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dis-sys
on March 13, 2018
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Show HN: AtomicWrite: cross platform library for a...
The title is pretty misleading, as already clearly mentioned by the author, the library is all about atomically _creating_ a file with specified content on disk, it is not about how to atomically append/update/delete files on disk.
jeffreyrogers
on March 13, 2018
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That's a much harder problem and I don't think you can do it portably. In fact, I'm not sure of any filesystem that can make those guarantees.
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