Dirk Engling wrote:
> Please try the "cp -f" before guessing, what it might do ;)
>
> cp -f removes anything on that location before relinking the new file.
> Atomically.
No. `cp -f` unlinks the existing file and creates a new file, but will
still follow a symlink if one is created between the "unlink" syscall and
the "open" syscall.
/* remove existing destination file name,
* create a new file */
(void)unlink(to.p_path);
if (!lflag)
to_fd = open(to.p_path, O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC | O_CREAT,
fs->st_mode & ~(S_ISUID | S_ISGID));
Colin Percival
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