Am Do., 15. Apr. 2021 um 13:00 Uhr schrieb Daniel Trstenjak <daniel.trstenjak@gmail.com>:
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:05:25AM +0200, Sven Panne wrote:
> Am Do., 15. Apr. 2021 um 10:24 Uhr schrieb Daniel Trstenjak <daniel.trstenjak@gmail.com>:
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>     And it's the safest, because a move is an atomic operation [...]
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> ... unless you are on Windows. ;-)

I thought it is if you ensure that the move is done on the same device
or partition.

Which "move" do you mean? ReplaceFileA's return code exposes various levels of non-atomicity (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/nf-winbase-replacefilea) and Transactional NTFS (e.g. MoveFileTransactedA) has already been deprecated (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/deprecation-of-txf). Perhaps there are other, even more arcane variations on this conceptually simple operation on Windows, but I don't know... Supporting this madness in a cross-platform way is even more interesting.