From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>,
David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/7] [RFC] cramfs: fake write support
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:01:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806021701.17076.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8353.1212417209@jrobl>
On Monday 02 June 2008, hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp wrote:
> Aure rename returns EXDEV when the target is a dir and it has child
> entr(y|ies) on lower branhc(es). And mv(1) handles this case.
> My Engilsh might be miunderstood. Do you think link(2) should return an
> error when the target exists on lower writable branch?
Any writes should always just go to the top level. If the source file
for link() exists on the top level, link should succeed even if a target
exists on a lower level (given that the user has permissions to
unlink that file), but should return EXDEV if the source comes from
a lower level.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-02 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-31 15:37 [RFC 0/7] [RFC] cramfs: fake write support arnd
2008-05-31 18:56 ` David Newall
2008-05-31 20:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-06-01 3:54 ` Phillip Lougher
2008-06-01 8:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-06-01 12:28 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-06-01 21:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-06-02 2:48 ` hooanon05
2008-06-02 3:25 ` Erez Zadok
2008-06-02 7:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-06-02 18:13 ` Erez Zadok
2008-06-03 2:02 ` Phillip Lougher
2008-06-02 3:51 ` Erez Zadok
2008-06-02 11:07 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-06-02 4:37 ` Erez Zadok
2008-06-02 6:07 ` Bharata B Rao
2008-06-02 7:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-02 7:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-06-02 10:36 ` hooanon05
2008-06-02 11:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-06-02 12:56 ` hooanon05
2008-06-02 14:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-06-02 14:33 ` hooanon05
2008-06-02 15:01 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2008-06-03 11:04 ` hooanon05
2008-06-02 14:54 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-06-02 17:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-06-02 15:35 ` Erez Zadok
2008-06-01 6:02 ` David Newall
2008-06-01 9:11 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-01 16:25 ` Jörn Engel
2008-06-01 3:19 ` Phillip Lougher
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