Performs atomic file writes.

Options

• :path (String.t/0) - Required. Path to the final file that is atomically written.

• :overwrite? (boolean/0) - Overwrite the target file if it already exists? The default value is true.

• :tmp_dir (String.t/0) - Directory in which the temporary files are written. The default value is ".".

LWW Atomic Writes

AtomicWrites.write("Atomically written content.", path: "example.txt")

FWW Atomic Writes

AtomicWrites.write("Atomically written content.", path: "example.txt", overwrite?: false)

Serialized Atomic Writes

alias AtomicWrites.AtomicFile

{:ok, pid} = AtomicFile.start_link(path: "example.txt")
AtomicFile.write(pid, "Serialized, atomically written content.")

Installation

The package can be installed by adding atomic_writes to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
[
  {:atomic_writes, "~> 1.0"}
]
end

License

AtomicWrites is released under the Apache License 2.0.

About

This package was written by Elliot Jackson.

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• Email: elliot@elliotekj.com