From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:46:45 GMT
Subject: Re: git 565ebbf79f61873042c22a7126d002c104e056f4 broken on OpenBSD
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510261844020.29044@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20051026161552.GA11483@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu>

Hi,

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Jan Harkes wrote:

> Checking the SuSv2 manpage for link(2), it doesn't mention either of
> these error codes. But does mention EPERM as a valid error when the
> filesystem doesn't support hardlinks.
>     http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/link.html
> 
> My local manual page for link(2) agrees with that definition,
> 
> 	EPERM  oldpath is a directory.
> 
> 	EPERM  The  filesystem  containing oldpath and newpath does not support
> 	       the creation of hard links.

On my iBook, connecting a USB stick (FAT formatted), link() sets 
errno=ENOTSUP. I checked the man page, and erroneously thought that they 
got it right.

*turns his eyes helplessly to the sky*

Ciao,
Dscho