On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Giles Lean wrote:

: > Just to be clear - sysinst will tell pax/tar to carefully unlink the
: > file first.  In normal operation I believe that pax/tar just open the
: > file for write, you have to use the 'u' flag to tell them to unlink
: > the file first.
: 
: It used to be like that, but I believe someone changed it.  It looks
: like we default f_unlink to true when we build GNU tar.  Testing shows
: the inode number changes, too, which is more convincing than source
: browsing of GNU source this early in the morning!

...And pax unlinks first, always (you can't turn that behavior off).

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