Re^3: Writing to a file atomically without renaming

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how about using a symbolic link?

For instance, suppose you have foo-1 and foo.link pointing to foo-1. To update it, first create foo-2, then change its permissions and finally point foo.link to foo-2.

The point is that foo.link can have more relaxed permissions, i.e., 644

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Re^4: Writing to a file atomically without renaming by nomis80 (Sexton) on Jun 30, 2005 at 19:43 UTC
Ok, but how do I make sure foo-2's owner is the same as foo-1?	[reply]
Re^5: Writing to a file atomically without renaming by salva (Canon) on Jun 30, 2005 at 19:56 UTC
oh, I see your problem now... I think you can't do it without becoming root in some way... like for example, using sudo.	[reply]

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