On Sunday 29 September 2024 17:03:31 Steve French wrote: > For patch 5 it could be ok - but wanted more opinions on that ... > since wouldn't want it to break POSIX - e.g. what would happen with > this patch if a Linux server changed the target of a symlink from a > file to directory (or the other way around) - is there any risk of > breaking POSIX symlink semantics in a pure Linux->Linux case with this > patch? I reworked the "cifs: Fix parsing native symlinks directory/file type" patch to not change anything when server announce POSIX extension. So V2 version of that patch would be active only for non-POSIX SMB servers, like Windows SMB. I hope that this would address all possible problems (not sure if there are any) with Linux client <-> POSIX SMB server scenarios.
