On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 12:34:11AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
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)
Paul Eggert wrote on Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 11:21:06AM -0800:
> The cat is to some extent out of the bag. Unless one insists on (FreeBSD |
> coreutils 9.2-9.4), or insist on coreutils 7.1-9.1, one should not rely on
> cp -n failing or silently succeeding when the destination already exists.
> This
On 16/12/2023 21:46, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 12/15/23 21:13, Michael Stone wrote:
On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 11:21:06AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
Stlll, Pádraig gave a reasonable summary of why the change was made,
To clarify my summary a little, there I said that -n now _immediately_ fails.
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
