Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Peter Wohlers wrote:
Since upgrading to 1.7, I keep seeing weird problems with deletion
of my homedir symlink.
Before running setup:
pwohl...@h1n1 ~
$ ll /
[...]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 Domain Users 18 2010-04-04 14:31 home ->
/cygdrive/d/Users/
[...]
After running setup:
[...]
Setup seems to have deleted the softlink for /home
Well... yes. That's probably a bit unfortunate. The current mechanism
always creates a couple of directories if they don't already exist:
...
/home
...
If the directory couldn't be created because a non-directory file
uses the same name, it deletes that file and tries to create the
directory again. It's not perfect, but at least we know that the
directories exist, afterwards. We could add a mode which drops the
aggressive creation strategy, but I only see that *could* make sense
for home.
Um, so I suppose it's doing a test for symlinks specifically. Why not
just test that /home is a directory via stat(), and if so, leave it
alone? Perhaps it doesn't have stat() available and it would be extra
work to cobble it together in that environment?
--
Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com
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