link(2) to rename files in sftp

[Markus Friedl]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:45:05PM -0400, Carson Gaspar wrote:
> --On Tuesday, April 06, 2004 09:24:31 +1000 Darren Tucker 
> <dtucker at zip.com.au> wrote:
> 
> >According to the CVS log, the link shuffle is used to "fix races in
> >rename/symlink" (revs 1.46 and 1.44).
> 
> If rename() has a race condition, the OS is broken. Plain and simple.

not rename, but stat+rename.