copy_tree published staged children with mv, which replaces a
concurrently created same-name directory (POSIX rename succeeds over an
empty target) and whose rollback moved every dest child back — including
a concurrent writer's different-named entries — before deleting the
staging tree. Children now publish through kernel-level no-clobber
primitives (mkdir claim + recursion for directories with the recorded
mode restored, ln for regular files, ln -s for symlinks), a manifest
records exactly what this transaction published, the rollback retracts
only those entries in reverse order, and each level re-counts the
destination so a foreign different-named entry aborts the publish with
the destination retained. Read-only staged directories (0555 skill
trees) are made owner-writable for the move; the backup restore uses the
same discipline so a concurrent writer is refused without partially
draining the backup.
Regression tests cover both scripts: a concurrently created same-name
empty child directory and a different-named foreign entry mid-publish
are retained with the original backup kept; both fail against the
previous mv-based implementation.