Re: [PATCH] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable

Hi,

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Alex Riesen wrote:

2009/4/23 Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref]:

quoted

-       if (link(tmpfile, filename))
+       if (unreliable_hardlinks)
+               ret = ~EEXIST;

It is more like "broken_hardlinks" or even "no_hardlinks"!

Wrong.  As I wrote, single-stepping (i.e. leaving enough time between 
link() and unlink()) works as expected.  So it is not even that the 
hardlinks are broken.  Just the serialization between the operations.

Ciao,
Dscho