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Re: [PATCH 3/4] copy: make backup files more reliably

From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] copy: make backup files more reliably
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 13:19:33 -0700
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Kamil Dudka wrote:

If the user
explicitly asks for a simple backup, cp should either make a single
backup or fail honestly if the simple backup cannot be made.
Fair enough. I installed the attached additional patch to do that. Although this reintroduces a race, I guess we've lived with the race for quite some time.

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