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NAME

MacOSX::File::Exchange - Perl access to the exchangedata system call

SYNOPSIS

use MacOSX::File::Exchange;

exchangedata("newfile", "oldfile");

or

use MacOSX::File::Exchange qw(:all);

exchangedata("newfile", "oldfile", FSOPT_NOFOLLOW);

DESCRIPTION

The Darwin/Mac OS X system call exchangedata atomically exchanges the contents and modification dates of two regular files, leaving all other metadata unchanged (this includes the inode numbers).

Expected arguments are two path strings and a flags integer. An omitted flags argument is interpreted as 0.

Available flags:

FSOPT_NOFOLLOW

Do not follow leaf symlinks in paths.

EXPORTS

By default:

exchangedata

On request:

FSOPT_NOFOLLOW

SEE ALSO

exchangedata(2) in your Darwin manual.

AUTHOR

Bo Lindbergh, <blgl@stakcen.kth.se>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2013 by Bo Lindbergh

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.9 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.