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istream-concat: Fixed a lot of bugs.
author Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
date Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:06:57 -0400
parents 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