few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 26/03/2008, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> rpm lays files down in a simple repeatable fashion, for any path /foo/bar/baz:
>
>  - write to /foo/bar/baz.$tempname
>  - rename("/foo/bar/baz.$tempname", "/foo/bar/baz")
>
>  This ensures that the path is updated to the new file atomically, which you really
>  really want.
>
>  What happens when /foo/bar/baz is a populated directory is left as an exercise
>  for the user.

Aha, I see. Thanks for the explanation.