safe_rename() and verifying the result of link(2)

Fri Aug 3 05:57:48 UTC 2018

On 2018-07-26 18:39:30 -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> My question is about the merit of performing the lstat double-check.
> Does mutt need to be doing this?  Does this work around some strange bug
> with certain filesystems or NFS?

sshfs has bugs by default. When I use it, I need the -o workaround=rename
option, otherwise some operations fail (I don't remember what exactly).
Has this been tried here, with Mutt?

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