Re: install.c: please set unlink_dest_before_opening=false

[Eric Blake]

> install --help says it will just "copy SOURCE to DEST", so one would
> expect to behave like cp and not break hard links.
> 
> However, because unlink_dest_before_opening is set to true, this will
> break links.

Thanks for the report.  How do non-GNU install programs behave
in this regard?

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

Nope.  install isn't specified by POSIX, so making it depend on
POSIXLY_CORRECT is the wrong thing to do.  (The name
POSIX_ME_HARDER is no longer in use; it was replaced by
POSIXLY_CORRECT).

-- 
Eric Blake

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