# [PATCH 3/4] Work around missing hard links on FAT formatted media 1 messages from 2005-10-25 to 2005-10-25. Participants: Johannes Schindelin. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/2231 ## Johannes Schindelin, 2005-10-25 23:41 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Work around missing hard links on FAT formatted media Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.63.0510260140320.30576%40wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de ``` FAT -- like Coda -- does not like cross-directory hard links. To be precise, FAT does not like links at all. But links are not needed either. So get rid of them. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- clone-pack.c | 2 +- sha1_file.c | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) applies-to: 73c52ee93ee1d5441a4cb207287b3ba7b0d8f4ed 8ffaffc904086970c66e5e8b7dd54001a1a2c466 diff --git a/clone-pack.c b/clone-pack.c index 4f4975b..9609219 100644 --- a/clone-pack.c +++ b/clone-pack.c @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static int clone_without_unpack(int fd[2 ifd = fd[0]; snprintf(tmpfile, sizeof(tmpfile), - "%s/pack-XXXXXX", get_object_directory()); + "%s/pack/tmp-XXXXXX", get_object_directory()); ofd = mkstemp(tmpfile); if (ofd < 0) return error("unable to create temporary file %s", tmpfile); diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c index e456799..7fdc469 100644 --- a/sha1_file.c +++ b/sha1_file.c @@ -1239,11 +1239,14 @@ int move_temp_to_file(const char *tmpfil * won't be able to check collisions, but that's not a * big deal. * + * The same holds for FAT formatted media. + * * When this succeeds, we just return 0. We have nothing * left to unlink. */ - if (ret == EXDEV && !rename(tmpfile, filename)) + if ((ret == EXDEV || ret == ENOTSUP) && !rename(tmpfile, filename)) return 0; + ret = errno; } unlink(tmpfile); if (ret) { --- 0.99.8.GIT ```