vorbistagedit(1) doesn't properly handle hardlinks
I've been using vorbistagedit(1) to tag my music, since it does exactly what I tell it to do. It doesn't presume to be “smarter” than the user, e.g. doesn't modify any KEY=value pair like most other “regular user” applications do. Last but not least, I can use it on the console. (yeah!)
Recently I've noticed, that some hardlinks broke. My media directory structure looks like this:
media/media/xartist/media/xartist/badLoop/media/xartist/badLoop/lumme.oggmedia/xlabel/media/xlabel/kahvi/media/xlabel/kahvi/029/media/xlabel/kahvi/029/00-badLoop-lumme.ogg
Where – you've guessed it – both *.ogg files are hardlinked.
After editing either *.ogg file utilizing vorbistagedit(1), I realized that at the command-line specified file path a new file with the same name is created, thus decreasing the refcount of the file as it was initially loaded.
Obviously I don't want that.