From: Trond Myklebust Subject: RE: historical question: nfs_rename() Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:11:54 -0700 Message-ID: <1129659114.12268.30.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> References: <044B81DE141D7443BCE91E8F44B3C1E288E579@exsvl02.hq.netapp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Peter Staubach , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1ERvwc-0007CT-Ld for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:12:14 -0700 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16] ident=7411) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1ERvwZ-000596-PL for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:12:14 -0700 To: "Lever, Charles" In-Reply-To: <044B81DE141D7443BCE91E8F44B3C1E288E579@exsvl02.hq.netapp.com> Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: ty den 18.10.2005 klokka 10:59 (-0700) skreiv Lever, Charles: > the specific case i'm whining about today is renaming a directory to an > empty directory. the desired semantic is that the empty directory will > be replaced. the existing semantic on the Linux NFS client is that > rename(2) returns -EBUSY. A well-written testcase speaks louder than 1000 words (and avoids much confusion on my part). ;-) Cheers, Trond ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs