Re: snapshot in a few hours

[Eric Blake]

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According to Jim Meyering on 9/4/2009 2:36 PM:
>> +     so we are justified in trying link() before blindly removing B,
>> +     and calling link() twice for a successful 'ln -f'.
> 
> Looks fine, modulo:
> 
> how about adjusting via
> 
> s/and/and thus sometimes/
> or s/twice/a second time,/
> 
> Otherwise, it might be seen as saying there are a total of 3 link calls.

Thanks for the review.  Pushed, with the revised sentence reading:

>      Fortunately, POSIX 2008 clarified that an application is free
>      to fail early if it can prove that continuing onwards cannot
>      succeed, so we are justified in trying link() before blindly
>      removing B, thus sometimes calling link() a second time during
>      a successful 'ln -f A B'.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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