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On 10/15/2012 6:07 PM, Xin Li wrote:
> Because it's not guaranteed to work on every filesystems?  But yes I
> think it would be a good idea to implement it and use it when all
> filesystems used to store crontabs supports it.

I considered it, but it seems inadequate for things like:

# mv /etc /etc.old
# mv /etc.new /etc

-Maxim