Stop deleting the latest.v3bw symlink. Instead, do an atomic rename. (!237) · Merge requests · juga / sbws_gh · GitLab

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juga requested to merge github/fork/teor2345/ticket26740 into master Jul 18, 2018

Created by: teor2345

Also:

document the location of latest.v3bw
document the atomic creation of latest.v3bw
explain how to atomically create latest.v3bw when transferring it to another host

Closes tor trac 26740.

For an explanation of the code changes, see the comments, or the second (atomic) answer on: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8299386/modifying-a-symlink-in-python