From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent unlinking moved symlinks
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:37:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110443825.3797.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050308055953.GA17994@luebsphoto.com>
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 00:59 -0500, John K Luebs wrote:
> Here's a fairly obvious fix; so someone please check it carefully.
>
> This patch causes the remove handler to check that each symlink
> actually points to the correct devnode and skip it if it does not.
> The current policy for symlinks in devnode add handling is to "move" the
> link if it exists, so when an old devnode is being removed its stored
> symlink entries might be stale.
That's a nice change. I've applied that to my tree.
Thanks,
Kay
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2005-03-08 5:59 [PATCH] prevent unlinking moved symlinks John K Luebs
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