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@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- referent, there is no risk of data loss, since the symlink will typically still point to one of the hard links. + "mv A B" could succeed, yet A would remain. This would happen only when + both A and B were hard links to the same symlink, and with a kernel for + which rename("A","B") does nothing and returns 0 (POSIX mandates this + surprising rename no-op behavior). Now, mv handles this case by skipping + the usually-useless rename and simply unlinking A. + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.15 (2012-01-06) [stable] |