On 27 Mar, Angus Lees wrote:
> nothing magic. its removing the old file before writing the new file.
>
> anything that doesn't do this needs a good beating.
I actually find the opposite of this is true, for me. If I have hard
links and I update one file, I expect and want both to change. I find
it quite annoying when some utilities write, remove, rename the file
since it breaks the hard link(s) I made.
E.g. if I say:
cp xxx yyy
I would not want cp to remove yyy before copying xxx.
I guess that sometimes you want one behaviour, sometimes the other.
luke
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