>> Its not clear to me where the rename operation happens in all of
>> this - does rsync create a local, temporary copy of the file and
>> then rename it?
>
>Yes, this is normally how rsync does it.
If file already exists {
foreach block {
copy block either from disk or from the
source operand, whichever is never, to temp file
}
}
When rsync catches a signal {
move the tempfile to the original name
}
Jan Engelhardt
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