Ramkumar Ramachandra [off-list ref] writes:
I would argue that there is something to "fix", but that fix involves
making the cp a purely atomic operation which is super-complicated,
and totally not worth it. Would you _not_ like the above example to
work?
No. I do not think I like the above example to "work", at all.
I know we live in the real world, and I do not want to see such
serializing implementations of cp or rm that try to "fix", as it
will interfere my everyday use where such a race does not matter.