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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: bug#21460: Race condition in tests/tail-2/assert.sh
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 18:09:34 -0700
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P=C3=A1draig Brady wrote:
> +  else if (new_stats.st_nlink =3D=3D 0) /* XXX: what about multi-linke=
d files.  */

That comment was my thought exactly.  It appears to be a kernel bug that =
really=20
needs to get fixed in the kernel; there just doesn't seem to be a reliabl=
e=20
workaround in user space.