From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:39:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904261939190.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vws98y886.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> So if you do:
> 
> 	cat >corrupt-move.c <<\EOF
> 	#include <unistd.h>
> 	int main(int ac, char **av)
>         {
>                 return (link(av[1], av[2]) || unlink(av[1]));
> 	}
> 	EOF
>         cc -o corrupt-move corrupt-move.c
>         ./corrupt-move corrupt-move.c corrupt-move.c.new
> 
> you end up with a corrupt-move.c.new file that is full of NUL?

I have not compiled and run this code, but I am _real_ sure that this is 
exactly the issue.

Ciao,
Dscho