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

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:28:38 +0000

On 16/11/14 16:35, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> If we change this, it's much more likely that people will start complaining
>> about their non overlapping mv instances failing.
> 
> I'd far rather deal with those complaints than deal with complaints about 'mv' silently discarding files.  Either the FreeBSD or the Solaris behavior would be a real improvement over what we're doing now.  Neither behavior is as good as having support in the kernel for doing the right thing, but one step at a time.

Fair enough. That's 3 votes for changing this.
I'll work on a patch to fail in this case.

thanks,
Pádraig.