PSPP-BUG: [bug #21280] gui truncates system files.

[Ben Pfaff]

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #21280 (project pspp):

OK.  This is do-able.  There is an issue to be resolved, however: when does
the file get replaced?  This comes up when an error occurs while the operation
is running.  In that case, one would hope that the original file would not be
deleted.

One solution is: when a file is opened for writing, create it under a
temporary name other than the one that the user chose.  Then, when the file is
closed, rename it to the final name.  (The temporary and final files should be
in the same directory to ensure that rename does not fail because it is a
cross-file system operation.)

Does this sound reasonable to you?

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