.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "FcAtomicCreate" "3" "2022/03/31" "Fontconfig 2.14.0" "" .SH NAME FcAtomicCreate \- create an FcAtomic object .SH SYNOPSIS .sp \fB#include .sp FcAtomic * FcAtomicCreate (const FcChar8 *\fIfile\fB); \fR .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP Creates a data structure containing data needed to control access to \fIfile\fR\&. Writing is done to a separate file. Once that file is complete, the original configuration file is atomically replaced so that reading process always see a consistent and complete file without the need to lock for reading.