On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
>> The Haiku failure is due to gzexe failing due to that system's lack of
>> hard link support:
>>
>> + eval 'env $i in-6369 < $tmp_in > $tmp_out'
>> ++ env gzexe in-6369
>> in-6369:-15.4%
>> ln: failed to create hard link '
On 11/15/2017 09:32 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
+ ln -f "$file" "$file~" 2>/dev/null || cp -f "$file" "$file~" || {
This will be problematic if the destination already exists, as the
resulting permissions etc. may not be what the user intend. How about if
we fall back on "mv -f" instead? Althoug
