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mv return value.

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From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka <at> redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: "30907 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <30907 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
 Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org,
 Jorgen Harmse <Jorgen.Harmse <at> samsclub.com>
Subject: Re: bug#30907: mv return value.
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:45:50 +0100

On Friday, March 23, 2018 2:00:01 PM CET Eric Blake wrote:
> I don't know if mv exposes RENAME_NOREPLACE semantics yet, but it should
> be taught to do so, where such semantics are available.

mv was recently patched to use renameat2(..., RENAME_NOREPLACE):

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=v8.29-9-g29baf25aa

Kamil

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