On Monday 02 June 2008, hooanon05@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Aure rename returns EXDEV when the target is a dir and it has child > entr(y|ies) on lower branhc(es). And mv(1) handles this case. > My Engilsh might be miunderstood. Do you think link(2) should return an > error when the target exists on lower writable branch? Any writes should always just go to the top level. If the source file for link() exists on the top level, link should succeed even if a target exists on a lower level (given that the user has permissions to unlink that file), but should return EXDEV if the source comes from a lower level. Arnd <>< -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
