udev and existing symlinks

udev and existing symlinks

[Marco d'Itri]

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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Re: udev and existing symlinks

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 02:29:13PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> 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));

The patch from Martin Schlemmer should keep this from happening, right?

thanks,

greg k-h


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Re: udev and existing symlinks

[Marco d'Itri]

On Dec 30, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

 >The patch from Martin Schlemmer should keep this from happening, right?
Yes.

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