tag 6960 - notabug
reopen 6960
thanks

On 01/04/2012 01:53 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> mv --backup=numbered is not atomic; it expands to two rename() syscalls,
>>> between which the target doesn’t exist at all.
> 
> Oh!  Amazing that suboptimal behavior has persisted in coreutils for so long.
> 
>> Maybe we should fix that, to make mv --backup use link()/rename() rather
>> than rename()/rename(), so that there is no window where the target
>> doesn't exist.
> 
> No "maybe" about it ;-)

In which case we'd better reopen this bug.

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