From 8a057f183f3d7ce8247742f4628178ed946bfd91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Enno Rehling <enno.rehling@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 13:22:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] CID 22580 Time of check time of use no need to check this
 first

---
 src/kernel/save.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/kernel/save.c b/src/kernel/save.c
index 4ed639959..cdec5f9a4 100644
--- a/src/kernel/save.c
+++ b/src/kernel/save.c
@@ -1743,10 +1743,8 @@ int writegame(const char *filename)
 
     sprintf(path, "%s/%s", datapath(), filename);
 #ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
-    if (access(path, R_OK) == 0) {
-        /* make sure we don't overwrite some hardlinkedfile */
-        unlink(path);
-    }
+    /* make sure we don't overwrite an existing file (hard links) */
+    unlink(path);
 #endif
     F = fopen(path, "wb");
     if (!F) {