//go:build windows // +build windows package replacefile import ( "os" "syscall" "golang.org/x/sys/windows" ) // AtomicRename renames from the source path to the destination path, // atomically replacing any file that might already exist at the destination. // // Typically this operation can succeed only if the source and destination // are within the same physical filesystem, so this function is best reserved // for cases where the source and destination exist in the same directory and // only the local filename differs between them. func AtomicRename(source, destination string) error { // On Windows, renaming one file over another is not atomic and certain // error conditions can result in having only the source file and nothing // at the destination file. Instead, we need to call into the MoveFileEx // Windows API function, setting two flags to opt in to replacing an // existing file. srcPtr, err := syscall.UTF16PtrFromString(source) if err != nil { return &os.LinkError{"replace", source, destination, err} } destPtr, err := syscall.UTF16PtrFromString(destination) if err != nil { return &os.LinkError{"replace", source, destination, err} } flags := uint32(windows.MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING | windows.MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH) err = windows.MoveFileEx(srcPtr, destPtr, flags) if err != nil { return &os.LinkError{"replace", source, destination, err} } return nil }