mv atomic operation?

From: Tanel Poder <tanel.poder.003_at_mail.ee>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 13:29:32 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005CE8CA.20030902132932@fatcity.com>

Hi!

Even though this isn't a unix/linux list I wanted to confirm that mv is an atomic operation in linux (that means, if the file entry appears in destination directory, is the file *immediately* *fully* accessible and with full original attributes or is there a tiny chance, that the file appears with size 0 or whatever similar difference first?). I'm writing a small archive log handling mechanism and just want to confirm it. I've seen few references about it being atomic in regular unixes, but haven't seen any for linux.

Thanks,
Tanel.

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