Re: [RFC PATCH] cogito --- don't overwrite metadata files in place (breaks CoW use)

From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Date: Jul 13, 2005, 20:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20050713203647.GA11403@taniwha.stupidest.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050713200724.GN9915@kiste.smurf.noris.de>

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:07:24PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> You lose if the link is relative and the symlink is not in the
> current directory.

Cogito doesn't create such links in my (limited_ experience. Why would anyone else do that?

> You also lose on systems where the empty filename is synonymous with
> the current directory.

Well, return code from readlink should be tested there.

[...]

> You should remove "DEST first. Otherwise, under Linux, you'll
> magically create the file the symlink points to, which may not be
> what you want to do.

That behavior *is* desirable in this case.

Anyhow, the fact this is so complicated and getting more so makes me think it's misdirected :-(