On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 05:56:42PM +0530, Anand Avati wrote: > Your summary is accurate. Currently distribute assumes link(2)ability of > non-directories to provide POSIX semantics that the destination path should > always be accessible if a file already existed at the time of rename(2). It seems this has been adressed by standards: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/link.html The bottom line is just to use lnkat(2) instead of link(2). I will implement linkat support in NetBSD -- Emmanuel Dreyfus manu@xxxxxxxxxx
