On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:12:39AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:04:12AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> > I actually think that the MH folder code is at fault here, not the
> > stat() call in safe_rename(), despite potential issues with the latter.
> > If safe_rename()
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:04:12AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> I actually think that the MH folder code is at fault here, not the
> stat() call in safe_rename(), despite potential issues with the latter.
> If safe_rename() fails with EEXIST, what logic suggests retrying
> forever is a good idea?
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 03:37:23PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 07:13:21AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > On 21Aug2018 07:07, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:30:03AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > > But as I understand it, this means
Vincent Lefevre wrote in <20180821230229.ga16...@zira.vinc17.org>:
|On 2018-08-21 07:07:15 -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
|> I don't like removing 20-year old safety checks, but I think it's okay
|> to do so for the case where link() returns 0.
|
|I was also hesitant, but after thinking more