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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) 
	when that is unreliable
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:44:18 +0200
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2009/4/23 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Alex Riesen wrote:
>
>> 2009/4/23 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
>> > - =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 if (link(tmpfile, filename))
>> > + =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 if (unreliable_hardlinks)
>> > + =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ret =3D ~EEXIST=
;
>>
>> It is more like "broken_hardlinks" or even "no_hardlinks"!
>
> Wrong. =C2=A0As I wrote, single-stepping (i.e. leaving enough time be=
tween
> link() and unlink()) works as expected. =C2=A0So it is not even that =
the
> hardlinks are broken. =C2=A0Just the serialization between the operat=
ions.
>

Since when does link(2) involve file _data_?