From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Morten Welinder" Subject: Re: [PATCH] fully resolve symlinks when creating lockfiles Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:34:50 -0400 Message-ID: <118833cc0707261234u59e30bchc274ae29569d8500@mail.gmail.com> References: <7vbqe0cazy.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <11854712542350-git-send-email-bradford.carl.smith@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Bradford C. Smith" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 26 21:35:00 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IE96x-00024B-0z for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:34:59 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763972AbXGZTez (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:34:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763585AbXGZTez (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:34:55 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.229]:59388 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763404AbXGZTey (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:34:54 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i30so395472wra for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:34:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Ev6bfZ9l/IHR/jnpAI/lL/tHrhwbR3NcZx/1PNNB6P3mhWvADFrWv756Fkl9FKnXkuM0CJND4B2VXxLq6GCqrbX3ZxeAfymQIyqOrExNuamUlDJpThK78kki4QTp62pHhS2SMUC9c/ijXOZsAwDljTMym8WbAliIbmST1NssR5o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LuVbJOQkfyX57H8Z1OtLbeMXL/1vxo6dsBHWX0pgBQvRhyhuEfrB5KAeHlsrwnBhQuGL2Wx9Z6fxRwAOpweJHOiLDu+6QkbpDNEVpd5+b1KCr6XRcKuhjYFu9u9dWOBCPjRpRmerM/pgEDmaVCrQAmQ99k8fUa6vk9UbbySyLlM= Received: by 10.78.157.19 with SMTP id f19mr521649hue.1185478490678; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:34:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.141.20 with HTTP; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:34:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <11854712542350-git-send-email-bradford.carl.smith@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Why the lstat and that stat in the beginning? That's just asking for race condition. readlink will tell you if it wasn't a link, for example. Morten