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Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:48:06 +0400
From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
To: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
CC: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lacombar@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] vfs: make unlink() return ENOENT in preference to
EROFS
07.06.2011 02:30, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 04:58:13PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> If user space attempts to unlink a non-existent file, and the file
>> system is mounted read-only, return ENOENT instead of EROFS. Either
>> error code is arguably valid/correct, but ENOENT is a more specific
>> error message.
>
> Umm... I can live with that. What about rmdir(2)? We have similar situation
> there as well. If we care about one, why not the other?
I think both should be fixed.
> Mind you, I'm not at all convinced that it matters enough to bother, but
> yes, ENOENT is a bit more specific (and likelier to be handled by luserland
> code).
The problem which triggered the initial thread and Ted's patch was me
trying to commit some changes from read-only /etc into git tree. This
works for everything but deletes, since `git rm' barfs when unlink for
a non-existing file returns EROFS. rm(1) has been patched especially
for this case at about kernel 2.6.32 time, as shown in comments at
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/remove.c#n450 ,
but git has not (yet), and I suspect git isn't the only leftover, there
are other applications to patch still, if the kernel will continue to
return EROFS.
Besides, POSIX says (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/unlink.html):
[EROFS]
The directory entry to be unlinked
is part of a read-only file system
so it clearly states that the entry should exists for EROFS, ie, to
be _part_ of the filesystem.
Thanks!
/mjt
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