Atomicity of file-copying/moving

Wed May 17 13:43:32 PDT 2017

On Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 20:02:44 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:
>> The standard way is to copy the source to a temporary file on 
>> the same file system as the target file followed by hardlinking
>
> Correction: should be renaming.

Here's an implementation in Python (3):

https://github.com/nordlow/containerize/blob/1dbcf57c1240882f8492f261962df0dfaa4edecb/containerize.py#L132

I would like to have it in D too. Any advice regarding the port?