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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2007-11-15 13:04:13 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2007-11-15 13:04:13 +0100
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parent47a46c844c712f24c5f226743227ae85760f9def (diff)
downloadcoreutils-2ed532618f1df9efa39b94bb2507319f48b650cf.tar.xz
Avoid misbehavior of a cross-device "mv" or "install".
Those programs must not dereference a destination symlink. * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Don't treat a dangling destination symlink differently in move mode. In move mode, the only way the added O_EXCL can cause failure is when some other process has recreated the file this code unlinked a few instructions before.
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