On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 07:02:52AM +0200, Wilhelm Meier wrote: > Am Montag, 28. Juli 2008 schrieb Michael Heydon: > > Wilhelm Meier wrote: > > > <snip> > > > On a local linux filesystem like ext2/3 one can rename a file to > > > an existing, already open file. > > > > > > But this doesn't work on a cifs-mounted samba-share > > > <snip> > > > > The reason this works with ext2 is that as long as you hold an open > > file descriptor a deleted file is still accessible (rename is > > essentially a delete and then a move). > > > > While it might be theoretically possible for this to work unix to > > unix, Windows doesn't deal with deleted files the same way (it > > prevents you from deleting files as long as they are open), and so > > it's quite possible that SMB/CIFS doesn't understand the concept of > > having a deleted file open. > > Yes, with a windows file server this is impossible. > > But I thought the samba unix extensions should make that possible. > > Otherwise samba/cifs is unusable as e.g. user-homes, since KDE tends > to use this pattern. > > Is there any workaround at the moment?
Can you log a bug with bugzilla.samba.org so I can track this. Include everything I need to reproduce (test code preferably) so I can ensure the UNIX extensions allow this. Thanks ! Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
