From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:03:32 GMT
Subject: Re: "git clone" executed as root on solaris 10 shreds UFS (it is possible to create hardlinks for directories as root under solaris)
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707161001300.20061@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070716133602.GB26675@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>



On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
>
> I think it is. Damn it. What seems to hapen here is that git does:
> 
>         - create a subdirectory
>         - puts a file in
>         - deletes a subdirectory (by call unlink - that would normally fail,
>           but with solaris as root it does not fail)

Solaris is apparently a buggy piece of crap.

I'd suggest making a bug-report. ENOTEMPTY is not an optional error. Posix 
says "Shall fail".

			Linus