Is appending to a file atomic with Windows/NTFS?

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Published on 2010-06-13T14:02:26Z Indexed on 2010/06/13 14:12 UTC
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If I'm writing a simple text log file from multiple processes, can they overwrite/corrupt each other's entries?

(Basically, this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1154446/is-file-append-atomic-in-unix but for Windows/NTFS.)

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