On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:17:25AM -0500, Steve French wrote: > Do you know a more standardized way to test if symlink support is available? > We don't really have the same thing as the FS and Device capability ioctls > that Microsoft offers, but even for them, they don't export whether symlink > support is enabled as a volume or export property. > Presumably we could try to create one and look for the rc EOPNOTSUPP), but > it seems simple enough for now to check on mount looking for > fs-specific features > as Pavel has done, or to always enable the symlink tests for cifs (and > smb3 after > we have added it). There's not good way to check for it except for trying. So a simple routine that creates a symlink on $TEST_DIR and checks if that works would be the way to go. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
