From: Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:13:10 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: fileutil: add move_into_place(), to perform the standard unix trick of atomically... 
X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-1.4.0~188
X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/components/com_hotproperty/%22doc.html/architecture.txt?a=commitdiff_plain;h=89f041ac83de5ec258d953f42cf52f401d4f9890;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git

fileutil: add move_into_place(), to perform the standard unix trick of atomically replacing a file, with a fallback for windows
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diff --git a/src/allmydata/util/fileutil.py b/src/allmydata/util/fileutil.py
index d8b084cf..3e33222a 100644
--- a/src/allmydata/util/fileutil.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/util/fileutil.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 Futz with files like a pro.
 """
 
-import exceptions, os, stat, tempfile, time
+import sys, exceptions, os, stat, tempfile, time
 
 from twisted.python import log
 
@@ -195,3 +195,10 @@ def du(basedir):
             size += os.path.getsize(fn)
 
     return size
+
+def move_into_place(source, dest):
+    """Atomically replace a file, or as near to it as the platform allows.
+    The dest file may or may not exist."""
+    if "win32" in sys.platform.lower():
+        remove_if_possible(dest)
+    os.rename(source, dest)