On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Emmanuel Dreyfus <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 05:15:10AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > CALL symlink(0xbfbff990,0xbfbfc91c)
> > MISC link-target: "i386"
> > NAMI "inst.04684a"
> > RET symlink 0
> > CALL __posix_rename(0xbfbfc91c,0xbfbff995)
> > NAMI "inst.04684a"
> > NAMI "machine"
> > RET __posix_rename -1 errno 1 Operation not permitted
>
> I found a possible cause. dht code ineed takes care of the directory case:
> if (IA_ISDIR (oldloc->inode->ia_type)) {
> dht_rename_dir (frame, this);
> } else {
> local->op_ret = 0;
> dht_rename_create_links (frame);
> }
>
> But if I add a log for oldloc->inode->ia_type, I can see it is IA_IFLNK
> and not IA_IFDIR: this checks for the symlink instead of checking the
> symlink target, therefore it fails to correctly detect it is a directory.
>
> Opinions?
>
>
rename(2) can be performed on a symlink too. Hence, I guess what distribute
is doing is valid here.
Regards,
Amar
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