From b816c631963a429658473b030ab6e7641b587562 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sfan5 <sfan5@live.de>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 11:46:06 +0100
Subject: Add minetest.safe_write_file() to script API

---
 doc/lua_api.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc')

diff --git a/doc/lua_api.txt b/doc/lua_api.txt
index 13881ef70..ab5caca0d 100644
--- a/doc/lua_api.txt
+++ b/doc/lua_api.txt
@@ -2223,6 +2223,10 @@ Helper functions
       * nil: return all entries,
       * true: return only subdirectory names, or
       * false: return only file names.
+* `minetest.safe_file_write(path, content)`: returns boolean indicating success
+    * Replaces contents of file at path with new contents in a safe (atomic) way.
+      Use this instead of below code when writing e.g. database files:
+      `local f = io.open(path, "wb"); f:write(content); f:close()`
 * `minetest.get_version()`: returns a table containing components of the
    engine version.  Components:
     * `project`: Name of the project, eg, "Minetest"
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