diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/DependencyInjection/Compiler/CompilerDebugDumpPass.php b/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/DependencyInjection/Compiler/CompilerDebugDumpPass.php
index ad93d7b419..20591c89ca 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/DependencyInjection/Compiler/CompilerDebugDumpPass.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/DependencyInjection/Compiler/CompilerDebugDumpPass.php
@@ -12,16 +12,20 @@
 namespace Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\DependencyInjection\Compiler;
 
 use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;
-use Symfony\Component\Config\ConfigCache;
 use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder;
 use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Compiler\CompilerPassInterface;
+use Symfony\Component\Filesystem\Filesystem;
 
 class CompilerDebugDumpPass implements CompilerPassInterface
 {
     public function process(ContainerBuilder $container)
     {
-        $cache = new ConfigCache($this->getCompilerLogFilename($container), false);
-        $cache->write(implode("\n", $container->getCompiler()->getLog()));
+        $filesystem = new Filesystem();
+        $filesystem->dumpFile(
+            $this->getCompilerLogFilename($container),
+            implode("\n", $container->getCompiler()->getLog()),
+            0666 & ~umask()
+        );
     }
 
     public static function getCompilerLogFilename(ContainerInterface $container)
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/DependencyInjection/Compiler/ContainerBuilderDebugDumpPass.php b/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/DependencyInjection/Compiler/ContainerBuilderDebugDumpPass.php
index 1457d7cf23..a9916cdbdc 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/DependencyInjection/Compiler/ContainerBuilderDebugDumpPass.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/DependencyInjection/Compiler/ContainerBuilderDebugDumpPass.php
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ namespace Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\DependencyInjection\Compiler;
 use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder;
 use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Dumper\XmlDumper;
 use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Compiler\CompilerPassInterface;
-use Symfony\Component\Config\ConfigCache;
+use Symfony\Component\Filesystem\Filesystem;
 
 /**
  * Dumps the ContainerBuilder to a cache file so that it can be used by
@@ -28,7 +28,11 @@ class ContainerBuilderDebugDumpPass implements CompilerPassInterface
     public function process(ContainerBuilder $container)
     {
         $dumper = new XmlDumper($container);
-        $cache = new ConfigCache($container->getParameter('debug.container.dump'), false);
-        $cache->write($dumper->dump());
+        $filesystem = new Filesystem();
+        $filesystem->dumpFile(
+            $container->getParameter('debug.container.dump'),
+            $dumper->dump(),
+            0666 & ~umask()
+        );
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Config/ConfigCache.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Config/ConfigCache.php
index e3ce58adf2..cbb1984272 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Config/ConfigCache.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Config/ConfigCache.php
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 namespace Symfony\Component\Config;
 
 use Symfony\Component\Config\Resource\ResourceInterface;
+use Symfony\Component\Filesystem\Filesystem;
 
 /**
  * ConfigCache manages PHP cache files.
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ class ConfigCache
             return true;
         }
 
-        $metadata = $this->file.'.meta';
+        $metadata = $this->getMetaFile();
         if (!is_file($metadata)) {
             return false;
         }
@@ -92,28 +93,23 @@ class ConfigCache
      */
     public function write($content, array $metadata = null)
     {
-        $dir = dirname($this->file);
-        if (!is_dir($dir)) {
-            if (false === @mkdir($dir, 0777, true)) {
-                throw new \RuntimeException(sprintf('Unable to create the %s directory', $dir));
-            }
-        } elseif (!is_writable($dir)) {
-            throw new \RuntimeException(sprintf('Unable to write in the %s directory', $dir));
-        }
-
-        $tmpFile = tempnam($dir, basename($this->file));
-        if (false !== @file_put_contents($tmpFile, $content) && @rename($tmpFile, $this->file)) {
-            @chmod($this->file, 0666 & ~umask());
-        } else {
-            throw new \RuntimeException(sprintf('Failed to write cache file "%s".', $this->file));
-        }
+        $mode = 0666 & ~umask();
+        $filesystem = new Filesystem();
+        $filesystem->dumpFile($this->file, $content, $mode);
 
         if (null !== $metadata && true === $this->debug) {
-            $file = $this->file.'.meta';
-            $tmpFile = tempnam($dir, basename($file));
-            if (false !== @file_put_contents($tmpFile, serialize($metadata)) && @rename($tmpFile, $file)) {
-                @chmod($file, 0666 & ~umask());
-            }
+            $filesystem->dumpFile($this->getMetaFile(), serialize($metadata), $mode);
         }
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the meta file path.
+     *
+     * @return string The meta file path
+     */
+    private function getMetaFile()
+    {
+        return $this->file.'.meta';
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/CHANGELOG.md b/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/CHANGELOG.md
index d20ba07cdc..e6aee66a57 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 CHANGELOG
 =========
 
+2.3.0
+-----
+
+ * added the dumpFile() method to atomically write files
+ 
 2.2.0
 -----
 
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Filesystem.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Filesystem.php
index af26ef4c6f..809b32cf5e 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Filesystem.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Filesystem.php
@@ -430,4 +430,32 @@ class Filesystem
 
         return $files;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Atomically dumps content into a file.
+     *
+     * @param  string  $filename The file to be written to.
+     * @param  string  $content  The data to write into the file.
+     * @param  integer $mode     The file mode (octal).
+     * @throws IOException       If the file cannot be written to.
+     */
+    public function dumpFile($filename, $content, $mode = 0666)
+    {
+        $dir = dirname($filename);
+
+        if (!is_dir($dir)) {
+            $this->mkdir($dir);
+        } elseif (!is_writable($dir)) {
+            throw new IOException(sprintf('Unable to write in the %s directory\n', $dir));
+        }
+
+        $tmpFile = tempnam($dir, basename($filename));
+
+        if (false === @file_put_contents($tmpFile, $content)) {
+            throw new IOException(sprintf('Failed to write file "%s".', $filename));
+        }
+
+        $this->rename($tmpFile, $filename);
+        $this->chmod($filename, $mode);
+    }
 }