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. > > Oh! Amazing that suboptimal behavior has persisted in coreutils for so long. > >> 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. > > No "maybe" about it ;-)
In which case we'd better reopen this bug. -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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