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On 9/24/19 2:28 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >> >> Looks okay to me. > > Thanks. Does the "intentionally ignoring POSIX" part apply to rmdir also? I > didn't find it easy to decipher POSIX. > > Even for mkdir, POSIX says, "If path names a symbolic link, mkdir() shall fail > and set errno to [EEXIST]." See > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mkdir.html#tag_16_325. > > But I'm not clear on how POSIX decides whether "path names a symbolic link" in > the case where the last component is a symlink followed by a slash. POSIX says that "/path/to/symlink" names a symlink, but "/path/to/symlink/" (attempts to) name the directory at the contents of the symlink. In mkdir("/path/to/symlink/", if symlink is dangling, then the official result is to create an empty directory at the target of the symlink, so that symlink is no longer dangling. In rmdir("/path/to/symlink/"), if an empty directory exists at that location, the directory must be removed leaving symlink dangling. The POSIX rules are self-consistent and match what Solaris does, but it is surprising action-at-a-distance. Linux kernel developers have repeatedly stated that they are unwilling to implement that behavior, and would much rather have mkdir("/path/to/symlink/") fail with EEXIST (the dangling symlink exists, and we can't create a directory to replace it, nor will we create a directory to make the symlink non-dangling), and similarly rmdir("/path/to/symlink/") fail because symlink is not a directory, even though symlink/ resolves to a directory. So even though we are knowingly violating POSIX, having both functions be consistent with Linux is reasonable. (I still hope that POSIX will relax its stance to allow both Solaris AND Linux behaviors, but that's not going to happen any time soon...) -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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