On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 04:43:07PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > Hit the "not a regular file (recv_files)" error last night > having replaced a directory with a file. > > The really dumb part is that this was hit doing a link-dest > on an empty destination so the robust_unlink would have > presented no problem anyway. > > I can see no reason why non-directory special files should > have any problem being replaced so i've changed that logic too. > > The new code simply treats old non-directory special files > as though they were non-existent and the same for > directories if they aren't in the destination (coming from > link-dest or compare-dest. > > As the new comment in the patch indicates, we wouldn't have > this problem at all if robust_unlink could cope with > non-empty directories. > > Barring comments or objections i'll commit this soon. >
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