Russell Warren enlightened us with: > On first pass I would think that both of those calls are single step > operations (removing/changing an entry in the FAT, or FAT-like > thing, on the HDD) and wouldn't result in an intermediate, > null-populated, step, but the evidence seems to indicate I'm > wrong...
They require multiple blocks to be written to disc, so if you're not using a journaling filesystem, bad things can happen. > Any insight from someone with knowledge of the internal operations > of os.remove and/or os.rename would be greatly appreciated, although > I expect the crux may be at the os level and not in python. You're right about that. Sybren -- Sybren Stüvel Stüvel IT - http://www.stuvel.eu/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
