Re: install.c: please set unlink_dest_before_opening=false

[Paul Eggert]

"Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <address@hidden> writes:

> I haven't checked POSIX though, but if this is actualy a requirement
> maybe a POSIX_ME_HARDER hack would make sense here?

POSIX makes no requirement.  Other implementations are all over the
map here, so I suppose we can do what is more convenient.  On Solaris
10, /usr/ucb/install breaks the destination link, and
/usr/sbin/install does not break it.  Traditionally, coreutils has
tried to be BSD-compatible, which argues for the current behavior.

Has BSD behavior changed?  (I took a quick look at the FreeBSD source
code for what it does, and quickly became bewildered.  :-)