Nathan Zimmerberg

When renaming directories instead of files, does that mean oldpath and newpath can refer to the same directory shortly after rename succeeds?

The issue with using `cp` is that it is not atomic for directories. It makes the destination directory and then copies the files one at a time (if I understand...

@mzaffalon @KnutAM Do you think the example error message in the PR #3827 will help others workaround similar issues? I don't know how to test this in a real-world scenario...

I found a way to reproduce the error on Linux, but it requires sudo so try this at your own risk. After running this I had to manually move my...

If the rename was retried after sleeping for some increasing amount of time, would that solve this issue, or does the anti-virus always stop Julia from doing a rename?

Good, the new `test_roundtrip_seekstart` is catching the bug in this PR. It is best practice for `startproc` to always fully reset the state of the codec.

I'm like the function name `rename` because this function is basically [rename(2)](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/rename.2.html) using libuv to provide an approximation of `rename` on Windows. I would say the main difference between `rename`...

Here are some examples of where this functionality is used currently. https://github.com/JuliaIO/HDF5.jl/blob/fbcd95dde2083c9f8c8ef6defaaf7fafd2552123/src/file.jl#L155 https://github.com/yha/AtomicFileWrite.jl/blob/0fbb7cf5b0e8ef899b2682ea70f5483923636504/src/AtomicFileWrite.jl#L24 https://github.com/medyan-dev/MEDYANSimRunner.jl/blob/67d5b42cc599670486d5d640260a95e951091f7a/src/file-saving.jl#L83 https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/pull/4001

I am closing this, as this is mostly an inherent limitation of mmap on Windows. Currently, DiskArrays.jl can be used as described in https://discourse.julialang.org/t/struggling-to-use-mmap-with-ziparchives/129839/19 There, reading is done with: ```julia...

I have a PR #176 to switch from PyCall to PythonCall which seems to fix the CI