This originated in the cliconfig code to write out credentials files. The
Windows implementation of this in particular was quite onerous to get
right because it needs a very specific sequence of operations to avoid
running into exclusive file locks, and so by factoring this out with
only cosmetic modification we can avoid repeating all of that engineering
effort for other atomic file writing use-cases.
A more convenient interface to get a throwaway empty credentials source
for use in tests, which doesn't interact at all with the real CLI
configuration directory.
This new implementation is not yet used, but should eventually replace the
technique of composing together various types from the svchost/auth
package, since our requirements are now complex enough that they're more
straightforward to express in direct code within a single type than as
a composition of the building blocks in the svchost/auth package.
Martin Atkins