On 01/17/2013 04:22 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 01/17/2013 01:03 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> The discussion leading to this is at http://bugs.gnu.org/13447 >> In summary other systems allow an empty target for a symlink, >> and POSIX specifies that it should be allowed? > > In relation to this, Eric Blake said: > >> In today's Austin Group meeting, I was tasked to open a new bug that >> would state specifically how the empty symlink is resolved; the intent >> is to allow both Solaris behavior (current directory) and BSD behavior >> (ENOENT). Meanwhile, everyone was in agreement that the Linux kernel >> has a bug for rejecting the creation of an empty symlink, but once that >> bug is fixed, then Linux can choose either Solaris or BSD behavior for >> how to resolve such a symlink. >> >> It will probably be a bug report similar to this one, which regarded how >> to handle a symlink containing just slashes: >> http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=541
Following up from http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=649 It seems POSIX will now allow the current Linux behavior of returning ENOENT, or the Solaris behavior of allowing empty symlink targets. cheers, Pádraig. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
