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Message-ID: <20140115141809.GH1685@port70.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:18:09 +0100
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: install.sh is wrong with libc.so

* orc <orc@...server.ru> [2014-01-15 20:48:18 +0800]:
> 
> I agree with that. For historical reasons it's not. But I expected musl will continue to use standard install program.
> 

the standard install program is non-standard

and it happens to fail to solve the problem it was designed for:
atomic replacement of binaries so they can be used concurrently
during install without spurious failures

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