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by chasil 160 days ago
For POSIX, yes.

https://rcrowley.org/2010/01/06/things-unix-can-do-atomicall...

Windows has a deep well of POSIX in the kernel (plus hard file locks), and it appears to hold there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem