Hello Junio, > This is wrong. If the filesystem has a symlink and we would want a > directory there, we should unlink(). So at least the stat there needs > to be lstat(). I see. > I wonder if anybody involved in the discussion has actually > tested this patch (or the other one, that has the same problem)? I tested it. But I did not test it with symlinks. > Does the following replacement work for you? It adds far more lines > than your version, but they are mostly comments to make it clear why > we do things this way. Yes, it does. Excuse the delay but my build machine is not the fastest. (faui04a) [/var/tmp] git clone ~/work/repositories/public/easix.git test-10 Initialized empty Git repository in /var/tmp/test-10/.git/ remote: Generating pack... remote: Done counting 317 objects. remote: Deltifying 317 objects... remote: te: % (317/317) done: ) done Indexing 317 objects... remote: Total 317 (delta 182), reused 278 (delta 157) 100% (317/317) done Resolving 182 deltas... 100% (182/182) done (faui04a) [/var/tmp] cd test-10 ./test-10 (faui04a) [/var/tmp/test-10] git status # On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean) I rebased your patch on top of current HEAD (as I can access it on git.kernel.org) and removed trailing whitspace from one line (git-apply complained) Thomas >From 3b60b807007507ce5e1f8490f1469dac5bb95917 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:31:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Do _not_ call unlink on a directory Calling unlink on a directory on a Solaris UFS filesystem as root makes it inconsistent. Thanks to Junio for the not so obvious fix. --- entry.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/entry.c b/entry.c index c540ae1..0625112 100644 --- a/entry.c +++ b/entry.c @@ -8,17 +8,40 @@ static void create_directories(const char *path, const struct checkout *state) const char *slash = path; while ((slash = strchr(slash+1, '/')) != NULL) { + struct stat st; + int stat_status; + len = slash - path; memcpy(buf, path, len); buf[len] = 0; + + if (len <= state->base_dir_len) + /* + * checkout-index --prefix=<dir>; <dir> is + * allowed to be a symlink to an existing + * directory. + */ + stat_status = stat(buf, &st); + else + /* + * if there currently is a symlink, we would + * want to replace it with a real directory. + */ + stat_status = lstat(buf, &st); + + if (!stat_status && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) + continue; /* ok, it is already a directory. */ + + /* + * We know stat_status == 0 means something exists + * there and this mkdir would fail, but that is an + * error codepath; we do not care, as we unlink and + * mkdir again in such a case. + */ if (mkdir(buf, 0777)) { - if (errno == EEXIST) { - struct stat st; - if (len > state->base_dir_len && state->force && !unlink(buf) && !mkdir(buf, 0777)) - continue; - if (!stat(buf, &st) && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) - continue; /* ok */ - } + if (errno == EEXIST && state->force && + !unlink(buf) && !mkdir(buf, 0777)) + continue; die("cannot create directory at %s", buf); } } -- 1.5.2.1 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html