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coreutils package

  1. Bug #262811
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 262811

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Mark Painter (mpainter) wrote :

Currently, mv may not be atomic. Atomic mv of symlinks is necessary for doing things like updating a symlink while ensuring the symlink always exists. Consider the case of a server that knows what directory is live via a symlink.

Upstream have removed the unlink for all moves, and this updated coreutils is in current development (and hardy).

TEST CASE: mv a symlink. The unlink syscall should not be triggered.

There is no expected regression with this patch.