On Sunday 28 February 2010 03:35:19 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello bug-coreutils readers, > > a recent GCC bug report[1] the GNU install program is not atomic; i.e., > when you > install file $dest & install file $dest > > then one of them may fail. For reproducability purposes, use several > large files, and call in a loop. > > I suppose it's fine for install to have this limitation, as it's > arguably a bug (or limitation) in the build system, and there is no > standard or documentation stating otherwise, but the behavior was > sufficiently surprising to me that I thought I'd write about it here > nonetheless.
doesnt the same limitation exist in ln/mv/etc... ?
touch a; while :; do (ln -f a f &) ; done
<bunches of different errors>
and i'm not sure things can be "fixed" in the programs ... so documenting the
limitation sounds like the only sane solution
-mike
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