Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Race condition in changes

[Aaron Bentley]

Robert Collins wrote:

> the working changeset should always have a unique name. If it's being
> kept it should:
> move an existing one out of the way.
> move the working into the final position.
> rm -rf the old one.

Why would we want such destructive behavior?  If the user selects a 
filename, use that, but barf if something named that already exists.  If 
it's an automatic filename, tla should pick one that doesn't already exist.

Aaron