bug#29266: gzip-1.8.41 test results: help-version and hard links

[Jim Meyering]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 2:37 AM, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Paul Eggert wrote:
>>> > +  ln -f "$file" "$file~" 2>/dev/null || cp -f "$file" "$file~" || {
>>>
>>> This will be problematic if the destination already exists, as the
>>> resulting permissions etc. may not be what the user intend. How about if
>>> we fall back on "mv -f" instead? Although this has the disadvantage of
>>> having a small window where "$file" does not exist, I think that's
>>> preferable to the disadvantage of using "cp".

P.S., thanks to both of you for the reviews and suggestions.

FYI, I've also pushed this:

gzip-make-generated-unwritable.diff
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