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On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 11:49 -0500, Seebs wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:30:55 +0000
> "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Because in GNU's infinite wisdom they're using renameat2() to do
> > atomic renames in the mv command, and as renameat2 isn't in the
> > headers for F27 it just does a syscall directly. This is in
> > upstream
> > coreutils so once they make a release, everyone gets it.
> UGH.
> 
> I... am really unsure whether it's possible to catch that, because
> I really, really, don't want to try to intercept raw syscall() calls.
> I don't think that ends well.

Just out of interest for my education, why is that a really bad idea?
Loops, e.g. with memory allocation issues?

Cheers,

Richard