hdf_write_file_atomic(3)

💖 hdf_write_file_atomic(3) 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the util/neo_hdf.h manual — that's the whole manual name, we're just folding it up here at the top like a cute lil' intro instead of doing the boring header-line thing. it's giving utility function, it's giving ClearSilver energy, and honestly? it's a bop. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

hdf_write_file_atomic — write an HDF data file atomically 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <util/neo_hdf.h>

NEOERR* hdf_write_file_atomic (HDF *hdf, const char *path);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea, bestie ☕ — hdf_write_file_atomic is basically hdf_write_file's cooler, more careful sibling. the way that it works? instead of just writing straight over your file like some reckless icon, it makes the new file under a unique name first, and then it calls rename(2) to swap the new file in and atomically replace the old one. no half-written file, no in-between state, no drama. 🫶

that's literally it. that's the whole glow-up.

and then the page just says:

Input: Output:

…and nothing else?? 😭 literally trailing off mid-thought, main character energy fr fr, she said "and as for the inputs and outputs… anyway 💀". we're keeping it exactly as she left it, no notes, periodt.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read these too, they're all part of the same friend group 💜:

hdf_set_symlink(3), hdf_get_valuef(3), compareFunc)(3), hdf_dump_str(3), hdf_get_int_value(3), hdf_read_string_ignore(3), hdf_copy(3), hdf_get_node(3), hdf_set_value(3), hdf_obj_child(3), hdf_read_string(3), hdf_set_buf(3), hdf_register_fileload(3), hdf_get_obj(3), hdf_get_attr(3), hdf_obj_top(3), hdf_dump_format(3), hdf_destroy(3), hdf_init(3), hdf_obj_value(3), hdf_write_string(3), hdf_set_valuevf(3), hdf_sort_obj(3), hdf_write_file_atomic(3), hdf_obj_attr(3), hdf_set_valuef(3), hdf_get_copy(3), hdf_write_file(3), hdf_get_valuevf(3), hdf_set_int_value(3), hdf_dump(3), hdf_get_value(3), hdf_set_copy(3), hdf_obj_next(3), hdf_search_path(3), hdf_obj_name(3), hdf_set_attr(3), hdf_get_child(3), hdf_remove_tree

(yes queen hdf_write_file_atomic(3) is in her own SEE ALSO list — self-love, we stan 💅✨)

aaaand that's the page!! 🎉 no cap, you now know everything this manpage knows. this lil' baddie came to you courtesy of ClearSilver, dated 12 July 2007 — vintage, iconic, still slaying. mwah 💖🍓🧚