On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:18:41PM +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote: > This is reponse to Sourceforge issue 1968395: failures to create hard > links aren't gracefully handled. Failing to create a link because the > file already exists is the normal condition being handled by the locking > code; however, a failure for any other reason is presumably a hard > failure worthy of reporting. The same goes if stat() fails with > anything other than ENOENT: in both cases we give up and should say so. > > It's possible this can be improved further.
Apparently this has caused someone distress because of the hard failure preventing the correction of the out-of-diskspace condition causing the history failure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
