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ln -sfn is not atomic #26

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dimo414 opened this issue Apr 25, 2021 · 2 comments
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ln -sfn is not atomic #26

dimo414 opened this issue Apr 25, 2021 · 2 comments

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dimo414 commented Apr 25, 2021

According to this post ln -sfn isn't actually atomic, despite the comment here. Need to confirm this is actually broken and then fix, presumably to the rename approach described in the post.
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dimo414 commented Oct 7, 2021

bkt uses the rename pattern, for reference.

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devkev commented Nov 23, 2022

A recent comment on the same answer claims that the ln in modern coreutils does the atomic rename approach now.

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