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		zepolen on June 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian's /tmpest in a teapot Not to mention if you did have a large tmp file that you actually want to persist to a different directory that is on disk you now have to wait for the damn file to be copied from memory to disk vs a single atomic rename operation, this can have major implications depending on the context.

guappa on June 5, 2024 [–]

Rename doesn't work across filesystems. You just create a new file and do a regular copy.

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