[racket-dev] atomic file update by write & rename... not!

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Thu Jan 13 16:30:08 EST 2011

15 minutes ago, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> Is there anything else in the main distribution that is uses
> `rename-file-or-directory' for atomic update?

Is the handin-server's use kosher?  There are three uses of it, and
the only one that looks suspicious is the last one, where "ATTEMPT" is
renamed to "SUCCESS-0".

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