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Re: PATCH: warn on "hard" hard link failure

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From: Clint Adams <schizo@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: PATCH: warn on "hard" hard link failure
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:18:34 +0000
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:18:41PM +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> This is reponse to Sourceforge issue 1968395: failures to create hard
> links aren't gracefully handled.  Failing to create a link because the
> file already exists is the normal condition being handled by the locking
> code; however, a failure for any other reason is presumably a hard
> failure worthy of reporting.  The same goes if stat() fails with
> anything other than ENOENT: in both cases we give up and should say so.
> 
> It's possible this can be improved further.

Apparently this has caused someone distress because of the hard failure
preventing the correction of the out-of-diskspace condition causing the
history failure.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: PATCH: warn on "hard" hard link failure
  - From: FranÃois Revol

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