The script is to run on Windows and various Unix flavours. I suppose I should test $^O to eliminate the unnecessary step on the Unices.

Update. Thanks to merlyn, I have improved my first attempt. On Unix, don't chmod a read-only file because renaming to a read-only file works fine there -- permissions on *directory* (not file) control rename (and delete) on Unix. Permissions now changed on temporary file, not original; this makes the rename the last (atomic) action, making the code 100% rerunnable on Unix, I think. On Windows, there is an extremely low chance of trouble: the rename is right after the chmod(...0200) so the worst that can happen is a read-only file may become writable.

if ($file_contents_changed) {
   my $bak = $fname . $$ . '.tmp';
   -e $bak and (unlink($bak) or die "unlink $bak: $!");
   open(my $fh, '>'.$bak) or die "create $bak: $!";
   print $fh @lines or die "writing $bak: $!";
   close($fh) or die "close $bak: $!";
   defined(my $mode = (stat($fname))[2]) or die "stat $fname: $!";
   chmod($mode, $bak) or die "chmod $bak: $!";
   $^O eq 'MSWin32' && ! -w _ and
      (chmod($mode|0200, $fname) or die "chmod $fname: $!");
   rename($bak, $fname) or die "rename $bak $fname: $!";
}

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