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bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 )
From: |
Boris Ranto |
Subject: |
bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ) |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:29:26 +0100 |
On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 00:28 +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 16/11/14 16:35, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Pádraig Brady wrote:
> >> If we change this, it's much more likely that people will start complaining
> >> about their non overlapping mv instances failing.
> >
> > I'd far rather deal with those complaints than deal with complaints about
> > 'mv' silently discarding files. Either the FreeBSD or the Solaris behavior
> > would be a real improvement over what we're doing now. Neither behavior is
> > as good as having support in the kernel for doing the right thing, but one
> > step at a time.
>
> Fair enough. That's 3 votes for changing this.
> I'll work on a patch to fail in this case.
>
> thanks,
> Pádraig.
>
I've looked at the code and I was able to identify the part that deals
with the symlinks. I'm attaching the patch that makes mv fail in this
case.
btw: I noticed that cp on two distinct hard links already has this
behaviour, i.e.: 'cp a b' will already exit with cp: 'a' and 'b' are the
same file.
-Boris
- bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ), Boris Ranto, 2014/11/13
- bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ), Pádraig Brady, 2014/11/13
- bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ), Boris Ranto, 2014/11/13
- bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ), Paul Eggert, 2014/11/13
- bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ), Pádraig Brady, 2014/11/14
- bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ), Ondrej Vasik, 2014/11/16
- bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ), Pádraig Brady, 2014/11/16
- bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ), Paul Eggert, 2014/11/16
- bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ), Pádraig Brady, 2014/11/16
- bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ),
Boris Ranto <=
- bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ), Pádraig Brady, 2014/11/18
- bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ), Boris Ranto, 2014/11/18
- bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ), Pádraig Brady, 2014/11/20
- bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ), Boris Ranto, 2014/11/21
- bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ), Pádraig Brady, 2014/11/21
- bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ), Pádraig Brady, 2014/11/21
- bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ), Pádraig Brady, 2014/11/21
- bug#18499: Possible mv race for hardlinks (rhbz #1141368 ), Pádraig Brady, 2014/11/29