Detection of identical file doesn't work for localhost:

[Damien Miller]

On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Tim Rice wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Damien Miller wrote:
> 
> > Another way around the problem would be to make scp write to a temporary
> > file and then do a rename() as the last step. This would prevent people
> > from clobbering files.
> 
> I the file has links, that will break them.

Still better than truncating it :)

-d

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