I have a workflow where I repeatedly need to overwrite files with new content. I think the easiest way to overwrite a file is to use write(filename,newcontent). My question is how safe this function is against data loss when the julia process calling it gets interrupted unexpectedly during the writ…

The mv operation is atomic when used within a file system (e.g. within a directory), so you should use that. The typical pattern is as Gunnar says, tfilename = filename * ".tmp" write(tfilename, newcontent) mv(tfilename, filename, force=true) This will ensure that filename always contains valid c…

Safe overwriting of files

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nhz2 August 2, 2024, 1:20pm 6

There is a function in Python called os.replace that tries to be atomic but I don’t know how to do this in Julia (outside of using PythonCall)

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Safe overwriting of files

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