bug#1736: marked as done ([Hendrik Tews] movemail loops if hard links are not supported)

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regarding [Hendrik Tews] movemail loops if hard links are not supported
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> [Hendrik Tews] movemail loops if hard links are not supported
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> Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:19:36 +0100
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)
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> On filesystems that do not support hard links, movemail will enter an
> endless loop.  It would probably be more prudent to error if link(2)
> fails with EPERM.
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> > Bug#384993: emacs21-bin-common: movemail loops if hard links are not supported
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> > Date: 
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> > Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:18:22 +0200
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> > Package: emacs21-bin-common
> > Version: 21.4a-3
> > Severity: normal
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> > movemail does not check the error code after creating the hard
> > link in line 344:
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> >           tem = link (tempname, lockname);
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> > As a result it loops if the link fails with -1 EPERM (Operation
> > not permitted). This happens for instance on smbfs mounted
> > directories, because smbfs 3.0.22-1 does not support hard links
> > any more (it used to).
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> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: testing/unstable
> >   APT prefers testing
> >   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> > Architecture: i386 (i686)
> > Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> > Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-k7-smp
> > Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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> > Versions of packages emacs21-bin-common depends on:
> > ii  emacs21-common                21.4a-3    The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
> > ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
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> > emacs21-bin-common recommends no packages.
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> > -- no debconf information
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> > Bye,
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> > Hendrik
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> Re: [Hendrik Tews] movemail loops if hard links are not supported
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> Date: 
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> Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:35:36 -0500
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> > On filesystems that do not support hard links, movemail will enter an
> > endless loop.  It would probably be more prudent to error if link(2)
> > fails with EPERM.
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> I've checked in the fix you suggested.  Thanks.
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