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Support for renameat2?

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On Linux, `cap-std` implements `Dir::rename` via `rustix::fs::renameat`, which is the `renameat` function.

Since Linux 3.15, there is another version of this call, `renameat2`, which supports an additional `flags` argument. `rustix` already supports this function as `rustix::fs::renameat_with`.

Could `cap-std` add support for this function as well?

## Additional Context

The external `cap-std-ext` crate implements atomic writes by writing a temporary file and renaming it in place. However, it is not possible to atomically create a file in this way.

`renameat2` supports the `RENAME_NOREPLACE` flag, which ensures that no existing file is overwritten by the rename. As such, an `atomic_create` could be implemented based on this change.

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