Eric Blake wrote:
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> Subject: [PATCH] rename, fchdir: don't ignore chdir failure
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> Although we just checked that chdir(cwd) worked, there is a
> race where it could disappear while we are temporarily away.
> If that happens, forcefully give up rather than proceeding
> in the wrong directory.
>
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According to Jim Meyering on 10/2/2009 10:26 AM:
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> The odd indentation highlights the fact there's a TAB on this line
> and on the three following. If you use spaces, the code will
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I haven't yet quite made
Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 10/1/2009 1:28 PM:
>>> Here's the current state of the series, finally ready for review. If we
>>> check it in as-is, then coreutils will have everything it needs to ensure
>>> consistent behavior of 'mv -T a b/' on every platform it already support
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According to Jim Meyering on 10/1/2009 1:28 PM:
>> Here's the current state of the series, finally ready for review. If we
>> check it in as-is, then coreutils will have everything it needs to ensure
>> consistent behavior of 'mv -T a b/' on every pla
Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 10/1/2009 1:59 AM:
>>> So I'm guessing that the bug was related to actual directories, where rename
>>> ("dir/","new") failed (with what errno?) while rename("dir","new")
>>> succeeded;
>>
>> That is definitely the case in question, as seen in the
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On 10/01/2009 03:17 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
Oops - for some reason, Windows thinks it needs to revive directory "a"
once "b" is emptied out and removed. Extremely weird; unfortunately the
fix requires that renaming on top of an existing directory will be
non-atomic on cygwin. I'm debating about w
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According to Eric Blake on 10/1/2009 7:17 AM:
> Here's the current state of the series, finally ready for review.
To play with it, you can use:
git pull git://repo.or.cz/gnulib/ericb.git master
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