Re: install.c: please set unlink_dest_before_opening=false

[Robert Millan [ackstorm]]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:26:49PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
> > install --help says it will just "copy SOURCE to DEST", so one would
> > expect to behave like cp and not break hard links.
> > 
> > However, because unlink_dest_before_opening is set to true, this will
> > break links.
> 
> Thanks for the report.  How do non-GNU install programs behave
> in this regard?

FreeBSD removes the link.  I don't know about others.

> > I haven't checked POSIX though, but if this is actualy a requirement
> > maybe a POSIX_ME_HARDER hack would make sense here?
> 
> Nope.  install isn't specified by POSIX, so making it depend on
> POSIXLY_CORRECT is the wrong thing to do.

Ah, ok.

> (The name
> POSIX_ME_HARDER is no longer in use; it was replaced by
> POSIXLY_CORRECT).

Yeah, I just feel a bit nostalgic about that ;)

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Robert Millan

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