Re: [PATCH] 312707: moving a file or folder onto itself destroys it

[Tuukka Tolvanen <tuukka tolvanen gmail com>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:56 +0300, Tuukka Tolvanen wrote:
> >    - if we did remove a conflict target and plan to remove the source
> >      after a successful copy, then before creating the new target check
> >      if removing the target removed the source as well, and decline to
> >      delete the source in that case. 
>
> What do you mean by this? If removing the target removed the source too,
> how can we decline to delete the source? its already deleted...

If the previous point "the conflict target is only deleted after the 
source is opened, so the handle keeps us from losing the source" holds, 
we'll get the source file back as the target gets written from that handle.

't.