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mv --backup=numbered should perform an atomic update

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: mv --backup=numbered should perform an atomic update
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:33:20 +0100

Since I'm closing the related ticket in which this was raised,
here's a new one:

In http://bugs.gnu.org/6960, Anders Kaseorg noted that
'mv --backup=numbered ...' does not perform an atomic update.
It should.

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