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		david2ndaccount on March 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows Snipping Tool is vulnerable to Acropalypse... rename is not atomic on win32. That’s a posix-ism.

chenxiaolong on March 22, 2023 [–]

Windows 10 1607 and newer support it now if you call SetFileInformationByHandle() with FileRenameInfoEx and specify the FILE_RENAME_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS flag. Not sure how commonly it's used in standard libraries, but I've seen it popping up more and more.

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