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Don't unlink + rename on CIFS mounts during copy operations

It turns out that the behavior of unlink() on CIFS mounts can be a bit "interesting". If the file one tries to unlink is opened then the operation is claimed to have succeeded but the filename is still visible in the file hierarchy until the last handle is closed.

Since we rightfully attempt to copy under a temporary name + unlink + rename during copy() operations this would end badly (as the unlink() would "succeed" but the rename() would fail!). For instance Okular would constantly hit this case but it's likely not the only one to be affected.

So instead we detect if the destination is a CIFS mount, in such cases we now overwrite the file directly since this actually succeed.

BUG: 454693

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