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bug#6960: mv refuses to move a symlink over a hard link to the same file
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Eric Blake |
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bug#6960: mv refuses to move a symlink over a hard link to the same file |
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Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:01:52 -0700 |
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tag 6960 - notabug
reopen 6960
thanks
On 01/04/2012 01:53 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> mv --backup=numbered is not atomic; it expands to two rename() syscalls,
>>> between which the target doesn’t exist at all.
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> Oh! Amazing that suboptimal behavior has persisted in coreutils for so long.
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>> Maybe we should fix that, to make mv --backup use link()/rename() rather
>> than rename()/rename(), so that there is no window where the target
>> doesn't exist.
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> No "maybe" about it ;-)
In which case we'd better reopen this bug.
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- bug#6960: mv refuses to move a symlink over a hard link to the same file, Anders Kaseorg, 2012/01/04
- bug#6960: mv refuses to move a symlink over a hard link to the same file, Eric Blake, 2012/01/04
- bug#6960: mv refuses to move a symlink over a hard link to the same file, Jim Meyering, 2012/01/04
- bug#6960: mv refuses to move a symlink over a hard link to the same file, Paul Eggert, 2012/01/04
- bug#6960: mv refuses to move a symlink over a hard link to the same file, Jim Meyering, 2012/01/29
- bug#6960: mv refuses to move a symlink over a hard link to the same file, Pádraig Brady, 2012/01/29
- bug#6960: mv refuses to move a symlink over a hard link to the same file, Jim Meyering, 2012/01/30
- bug#6960: mv refuses to move a symlink over a hard link to the same file, Jim Meyering, 2012/01/30
- bug#6960: mv refuses to move a symlink over a hard link to the same file, Paul Eggert, 2012/01/30