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Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 )

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Boris Ranto <branto <at> redhat.com>, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>
Cc: 18499 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ovasik <at> redhat.com, Miklos Szeredi <miklos <at> szeredi.hu>
Subject: bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 )
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.

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