Hi Paul, * Paul Eggert wrote on Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:36:43PM CEST: > > If I understand you and Ralf correctly about race conditions, here is > a proposed patch to should fix the condition on POSIX conforming > hosts. On older hosts there's no hope that I can see in general, but > it's not worth worrying about these ancient hosts at this point. I > hope this addresses Ralf's concerns.
Yes, I think so. Very clever patch, thank you! Cheers, Ralf > 2006-04-24 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * lib/install-sh: Close a race condition reported by Ralf > Wildenhues and Stepan Kasal. There is still a race condition > on hosts that predate POSIX 1003.1-1992, but we can't help this.
