atomically swap two files

From: Frank A. Kingswood
Date: Thu Nov 25 2010 - 15:13:22 EST


Hi!

Is it possible to swap two files in an atomic way, so that after the syscall either the two files have exchanged names or neither has been modified?

I suspect that btrfs could do it, but I'm wondering about ext3/4.

Frank

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