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Authored by trasz on Aug 9 2018, 11:13 AM.
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Summary

Make ldconfig(8) atomic, by removing an unneccessary call to unlink(2)
before rename(2).

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Aug 9 2018, 11:24 AM
sbin/ldconfig/ldconfig.c
522 ↗(On Diff #46456)

This comment really marks both unlink() and rename() calls and could be preserved. It is arguably not too useful.

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