Re: SVN need to delete/create-temp/rename files instead of simply ove rwriting them (suggestion how to workaround)

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 17:14, Norbert Unterberg wrote:
> On windows starting with XP, there is a new function ReplaceFile() which
> gives you both: Atomic file replacement with preservation of all attributes.

I would be fine with using ReplaceFile() on Windows when available, at
least in principle.

(But I'm not a Windows developer, so I'm not going to put the work into
it. And I'm not certain how this would actually be done. Perhaps there
would be a new apr_file_replace() which mirrors apr_file_rename() but
which, on Unix, matches some metadata aspects of the source file to the
target file before performing the rename. This raises questions of
whether apr_file_replace should be trying to match the file ownership,
and if so whether it should fail silently or loudly if the user can't
make chown() or chmod() calls.)

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Received on Mon Dec 6 16:43:51 2004