From: "Marco d'Itri" <md@Linux.IT>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: udev and existing symlinks
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 13:29:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-107235913600389@msgid-missing> (raw)
Without this patch udev will fail when a symlink already exists.
diff -ruN udev-011.orig/udev-add.c udev-011/udev-add.c
--- udev-011.orig/udev-add.c 2003-12-20 02:06:48.000000000 +0100
+++ udev-011/udev-add.c 2003-12-25 13:30:11.000000000 +0100
@@ -223,6 +223,8 @@
dbg("symlink(%s, %s)", linktarget, filename);
retval = symlink(linktarget, filename);
+ if (retval && errno = EEXIST)
+ retval = 0;
if (retval)
dbg("symlink(%s, %s) failed with error '%s'",
linktarget, filename, strerror(errno));
--
ciao, |
Marco | [3783 l'aPjd9wP9m5M]
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2003-12-25 13:29 Marco d'Itri [this message]
2003-12-30 1:24 ` udev and existing symlinks Greg KH
2003-12-30 1:52 ` Marco d'Itri
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