On 29/02/2024 22:02, Petr Malat wrote:
renameat2() syscall allows atomically swapping 2 paths on one
file system. Expose this ability to the user using -s option.

* NEWS: Mention the new option

Thanks for the patch.

That was suggested previously:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2021-05/msg00030.html

I agree this is useful functionality,
but the thinking is we should add this to a "replace" utility
rather than to mv.

thanks,
Pádraig

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