Re: [PATCH] Do _not_ call unlink on a directory

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jul 17, 2007, 19:07 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707171207090.27353@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vtzs3a0xg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> This is wrong.  If the filesystem has a symlink and we would
> want a directory there, we should unlink().  So at least the
> stat there needs to be lstat().

Good catch. Ack.

		Linus

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