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Re: [PATCH] Solaris 5.8 returns ENOTDIR for inappropriate renames.

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jan 16, 2007, 02:56 UTC
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<7vslebznl5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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<17433.1168911059@lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
Jason Riedy <ejr@EECS.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
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> The reflog code clears empty directories when rename returns
> either EISDIR or ENOTDIR.  Seems to be the only place.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Riedy <ejr@cs.berkeley.edu>
> ---
>    Haven't been keeping up with the list, so I apologize if I've
>    missed discussions related to these changes.
>
>  refs.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
> index 689ac50..851b573 100644
> --- a/refs.c
> +++ b/refs.c
> @@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ int rename_ref(const char *oldref, const char *newref, const char *logmsg)
>  
>   retry:
>  	if (log && rename(git_path("tmp-renamed-log"), git_path("logs/%s", newref))) {
> -		if (errno==EISDIR) {
> +		if (errno==EISDIR || errno==ENOTDIR) {
>  			if (remove_empty_directories(git_path("logs/%s", newref))) {
>  				error("Directory not empty: logs/%s", newref);
>  				goto rollback;
Sorry, I do not understand.

Before this codepath, we have done safe_create_directories() and should have already errored out if the parent directory of "logs/$newref" couldn't have been created for whatever reason. So when this rename fails, we have a file ".git/tmp-renamed-log" and a directory ".git/logs/foo", and we are trying to rename the former to ".git/logs/foo/bar".

Now ".git/logs/foo/bar" might already exist as a directory, and this error path is attempting to catch EISDIR that comes out from it (and in that case, if there is nothing but empty directories in the hierarchy under .git/logs/foo/bar, we remove them and retry).

Does Solaris give ENOTDIR in such a case?
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  1. Solaris 5.8 returns ENOTDIR for inappropriate renames.Jason Riedy, Jan 16, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2007

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