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Re: git on afs

From
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Oct 19, 2007, 20:19 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.LNX.4.64.0710191541360.32497@iabervon.org>
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<200710190742.08174.todd@fries.net>
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Todd T. Fries wrote:
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> You're the second one to point out that I should check the errno of link() on
> afs.
> 
> It should not matter, but I'm using arla's afs client on OpenBSD; the errno
> is 17 (EEXIST), the very errno that bypasses the coda hack's rename():

According to a quick web search, OpenAFS gives EXDEV (unless there are other errors that apply). Getting EEXIST when the new path doesn't exist sounds like a bug in arla to me, although it could also be an AFS server issue, AFAICT.

	-Daniel
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