Subject: bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 )

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:51:55 -0800

On 11/13/2014 08:06 AM, Boris Ranto wrote:
> Personally, I like the Solaris way the best (if we can't get the system
> call that would assure the atomicity in this case)

I tend to agree.  The Solaris way is racy too, butthe race doesn't lose 
data, and the warning is helpful.  Data loss is a Big Deal and we really 
should fix this one way or another.