From 308224833a4dd0c90174486e2f94671d43b117bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 11:46:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Make ldconfig(8) atomic, by removing an unneccessary call to
 unlink(2) before rename(2).

Reviewed by:	kib
MFC after:	2 weeks
Sponsored by:	DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16641
---
 sbin/ldconfig/ldconfig.c | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sbin/ldconfig/ldconfig.c b/sbin/ldconfig/ldconfig.c
index a9494cc9f6ad..d8318b67815d 100644
--- a/sbin/ldconfig/ldconfig.c
+++ b/sbin/ldconfig/ldconfig.c
@@ -518,13 +518,6 @@ buildhints(void)
 		warn("%s", hints_file);
 		return -1;
 	}
-
-	/* Install it */
-	if (unlink(hints_file) != 0 && errno != ENOENT) {
-		warn("%s", hints_file);
-		return -1;
-	}
-
 	if (rename(tmpfilename, hints_file) != 0) {
 		warn("%s", hints_file);
 		return -1;