Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable

From: Michael Gaber <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:38:02 +0200

Linus Torvalds schrieb:
> 
> On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> @@ -2225,7 +2225,9 @@ int move_temp_to_file(const char *tmpfile, const char *filename)
>>  {
>>  	int ret = 0;
>>  
>> -	if (link(tmpfile, filename))
>> +	if (unreliable_hardlinks)
>> +		goto try_rename;
> 
> Much better.
> 
> 		Linus

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD215.PDF

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