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sega_sai • yesterday at 6:41 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

rename() is certainly the easiest to use for any sort of file-system based synchronization.

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compressedgas • yesterday at 8:01 PM

As long as you don't run into or want freedom from possible path races, for that you need the missing:

  frenameat2(srcdirfd, srcfd, srcname, dstdirfd, dstfd, dstname)