Greetings!

*** spacefrogg [2023-10-05 14:21]:
>Could it be, that you are doing "cat" instead of "mv" on an existing target
>to avoid changing the inode?

Definitely not, because, as you correctly noted, that would be
non-atomic operation.

>Okay, further testing showed that file modes are not updated exactly when
>the content of the target did not change. So, after checking the content of
>$3 and the old target, goredo should still update the mode bits. :)

Agreed, forget to take it into account! Will copy the mode of the file
to the target even if it is not renamed because of identical contents.

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