"Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> How about attempting to write it, and if that fails then unlink ? (preferably
> checking the errno code for this condition)

That doesn't sound right; it'd mean the result of installing (say)
/bin/bash would differ depending on whether someone currently happened
to be executing Bash.  I think I'd rather have the unlink specified by
a command-line option of some sort.  (We can argue about what the
default should be....).


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