On Linux, you can invoke os.rename(src, dst) even if dst already exists. In this case, destination file will be atomically replaced by the source file.
On Windows, this will lead to an OSError because changes are not atomic. This cause certbot renew to fail in particular, because the old certificate configuration needs to be replace by the new when a certificate is effectively renewed.
One could use the cross-platform function os.replace, but it is available only on Python >= 3.3.
This PR add a function in compat to handle correctly this case on Windows, and delegating everything else to os.rename.
* Cross platform compatible os.rename (we can use os.replace if its python 3)
* Use os.replace instead of custom non-atomic code.
* Avoid errors for lint and mypy. Add a test.
* Add and use a compatibility layer to allow certbot to be run on windows.
* Fix path comparison
* Corrections on compat and util for tests
* Less intrusive way to parse prefix in webroot plugin working for both linux and windows.
* Disable pylint import-error for some optional imports in compat.py
* Ensure path is normalized before prefixes are generated in webroot plugin
* Same prefixes in linux and windows, in fact root path is not needed in webroot plugin
* Check that user has administrative rights before continuing on windows (necessary for symlink creation)
* More straightforward way to test administrative rights on windows
* Try to resolve import error in travis ci
* OK. We go for full introspection to trick the ci.
* Move the administrative rights control to the certbot entrypoint
* Add comment for a really non trivial code.
* Allow some commands to be run on a shell without admin rights
* Avoid races conditions on windows for lock files
* Add sphinx doc to the compat functions.
* Remove irrelevant Windows error in the lock mechanism.
* Some corrections on compat
* get through parsing
* not slice
* add mult vhost per file
* idx line backwards
* blocks be wrong
* always close ifmod
* let's not mess up indexes
* don't double add multi
* fix some lint, only dedupe multi
* tests
* fix lint
* in progress bit flip
* try to pick the right vhost
* take Dominic's suggestion
* don't redo search
* add ancestor
* we now support multiple vhosts
* yay
* add docstrings
* CLI flag for forcing interactivity
* add --force-interactive
* Add force_interactive error checking and tests
* Add force_interactive parameter to FileDisplay
* add _can_interact
* Add _return_default
* Add **unused_kwargs to NoninteractiveDisplay
* improve _return_default assertion
* Change IDisplay calls and write tests
* Document force_interactive in interfaces.py
* Don't force_interactive with a new prompt
* Warn when skipping an interaction for the first time
* add specific logger.debug message
