linux-ext4 - Re: 2.6.20 ext3 rename() returns success but doesn't unlink the source

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Date:	Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:18:33 +0200
From:	Timo Sirainen <tss@....fi>
To:	Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@...oo.fr>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.20 ext3 rename() returns success but doesn't unlink the
	source

On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 23:24 +0100, Guillaume Chazarain wrote:
> Timo Sirainen a écrit :
> 
> > 	rename("/mnt/Maildir/.Trash/new/1174635781.P25986Q0M341350.hurina",
> > 	       "/mnt/Maildir/.Trash/cur/1174635781.P25986Q0M341350.hurina:2,");
> 
> $ ls -li /mnt/Maildir/.Trash/new/1174635781.P25986Q0M341350.hurina /mnt/Maildir/.Trash/cur/1174635781.P25986Q0M341350.hurina:2,
> 122481 -rw------- 2 1000 1000 3091 Mar 23 08:43 /mnt/Maildir/.Trash/cur/1174635781.P25986Q0M341350.hurina:2,
> 122481 -rw------- 2 1000 1000 3091 Mar 23 08:43 /mnt/Maildir/.Trash/new/1174635781.P25986Q0M341350.hurina
> 
> All your files in the list are hard linked.
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=fs/namei.c;h=ee60cc4d3453209723d6f70982e7083d7cb39477;hb=HEAD#l2447
> seems to handle your case as you see it:
> if (old_dentry->d_inode == new_dentry->d_inode)
> 	return 0;

Hmm. Oh. So this is this intentional? First I ever heard of it, and also
goes against my logic. I'll go complain to man pages people then. This
will make my error handling difficult..


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