From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:48:01 GMT
Subject: Re: git on afs (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710181746020.30020@torch.nrlssc.navy.mil>



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On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Todd T. Fries wrote:

> link() returns -1 errno 17 File exists on afs.
> 
> To further muddy the waters, linking within the same dir is ok,
> linking outside the same dir is not:
> 
> todd@ispdesk/p6 ~/tmp�61$ mkdir dir
> todd@ispdesk/p6 ~/tmp�62$ touch a
> todd@ispdesk/p6 ~/tmp�63$ ln a b
> todd@ispdesk/p6 ~/tmp�64$ ls -l a b
> -rw-r--r--  2 4  wheel  0 Oct 18 17:09 a
> -rw-r--r--  2 4  wheel  0 Oct 18 17:09 b
> todd@ispdesk/p6 ~/tmp�65$ ls -li a b
> 2068032 -rw-r--r--  2 4  wheel  0 Oct 18 17:09 a
> 2068032 -rw-r--r--  2 4  wheel  0 Oct 18 17:09 b
> todd@ispdesk/p6 ~/tmp�66$ ln a dir/b
> ln: dir/b: File exists
> todd@ispdesk/p6 ~/tmp�67$ echo $?

That error is just bogus on afs. If it returned a sane
error, things would just work.

But, looks like afs only supports linking within the same
directory: http://www.angelfire.com/hi/plutonic/afs-faq.html

So, you could look into whether the temp file can be sanely
created in the same directory as the final filename.

-brandon