Re: RFC: allow empty symlink targets

2013-05-26 Thread Pavel Machek
On Wed 2013-05-15 23:03:35, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 01:38:48PM +0100, P??draig Brady wrote: > > >> In today's Austin Group meeting, I was tasked to open a new bug that > > >> would state specifically how the empty symlink is resolved; the intent > > >> is to allow both Solaris beha

Re: RFC: allow empty symlink targets

2013-05-24 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Following up from http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=649 > > It seems POSIX will now allow the current Linux behavior of returning > > ENOENT, > > Huh? Linux currently doesn't allow the creation of an empty symlink. > That link mentions the current BSD behavior of returning ENOENT w

Re: RFC: allow empty symlink targets

2013-05-16 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/15/2013 04:03 PM, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 01:38:48PM +0100, P??draig Brady wrote: In today's Austin Group meeting, I was tasked to open a new bug that would state specifically how the empty symlink is resolved; the intent is to allow both Solaris behavior (curr

Re: RFC: allow empty symlink targets

2013-05-16 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 05/15/2013 11:03 PM, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 01:38:48PM +0100, P??draig Brady wrote: In today's Austin Group meeting, I was tasked to open a new bug that would state specifically how the empty symlink is resolved; the intent is to allow both Solaris behavior (curr

Re: RFC: allow empty symlink targets

2013-05-15 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 01:38:48PM +0100, P??draig Brady wrote: > >> In today's Austin Group meeting, I was tasked to open a new bug that > >> would state specifically how the empty symlink is resolved; the intent > >> is to allow both Solaris behavior (current directory) and BSD behavior > >> (ENO

Re: RFC: allow empty symlink targets

2013-05-15 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 05/15/2013 03:40 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 05/15/2013 06:38 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> On 01/17/2013 04:22 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> On 01/17/2013 01:03 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: The discussion leading to this is at http://bugs.gnu.org/13447 In summary other systems allow an empty

Re: RFC: allow empty symlink targets

2013-05-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/15/2013 06:38 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 01/17/2013 04:22 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> On 01/17/2013 01:03 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> The discussion leading to this is at http://bugs.gnu.org/13447 >>> In summary other systems allow an empty target for a symlink, >>> and POSIX specifies th

Re: RFC: allow empty symlink targets

2013-05-15 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 01/17/2013 04:22 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 01/17/2013 01:03 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> The discussion leading to this is at http://bugs.gnu.org/13447 >> In summary other systems allow an empty target for a symlink, >> and POSIX specifies that it should be allowed? > > In relation to this,

Re: RFC: allow empty symlink targets

2013-01-17 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 01/17/2013 01:03 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: The discussion leading to this is at http://bugs.gnu.org/13447 In summary other systems allow an empty target for a symlink, and POSIX specifies that it should be allowed? In relation to this, Eric Blake said: > In today's Austin Group meeting, I wa