On 2023-12-16 13:46, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
Whether the implementation is race-prone or not is an internal thing.
I wasn't referring to the internal implementation. I was referring to cp users. With the newer Coreutils (FreeBSD) behavior, you can reliably write a script to do something if cp -n didn't copy the file because the destination already existed. With the older Coreutils behavior you cannot do that reliably; there will always be a race condition.
