This patch adds a missing docstrings for exported identifiers, and
adjust some of the existing ones to match the standard style.
In some cases, the identifiers were un-exported after noticing they had
no external users.
Besides improving documentation, it also reduces the linter noise
significantly.
This patch extends WriteFile to allow arbitrary operations to be applied
to the file before it is atomically renamed.
This will be used in upcoming patches to change the mtime of the file
before it is atomically renamed.
This patch makes safeio preserve file ownership. This is specially
useful when using command-line utilities as root, but the files they
change are owned by a different user.
To avoid user and automation confusion, prefix the temporary files with
a ".". That way, if something scans the directory for files, it's less
likely to encounter one of our temporary files.
This will become very relevant in subsequent patches.
This patch adds a new internal/safeio package, which is meant to implement
safer version of some I/O related functions.
For now, only an atomic version of ioutil.WriteFile is implemented. More may
be added later if there's a need for them.
