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Only imap binary was actually working.
author Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
date Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:35:02 +0200
parents 18c7c5215b53
children e4eb71ae8e96
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#ifndef __FILE_COPY_H
#define __FILE_COPY_H

/* Copy file atomically. First try hardlinking, then fallback to creating
   a temporary file (destpath.tmp) and rename()ing it over srcpath.
   If the destination file already exists, it may or may not be overwritten,
   so that shouldn't be relied on.

   Returns -1 = error, 0 = source file not found, 1 = ok */
int file_copy(const char *srcpath, const char *destpath, bool try_hardlink);

#endif