From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:59:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904232358520.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0904231239qf317c02xbfa548d0011a0302@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Alex Riesen wrote:

> 2009/4/23 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
> > -       if (link(tmpfile, filename))
> > +       if (unreliable_hardlinks)
> > +               ret = ~EEXIST;
> 
> It is more like "broken_hardlinks" or even "no_hardlinks"!

Wrong.  As I wrote, single-stepping (i.e. leaving enough time between 
link() and unlink()) works as expected.  So it is not even that the 
hardlinks are broken.  Just the serialization between the operations.

Ciao,
Dscho