Re: 2.2.0pre8: mkdir "." returns ENOENT instead of EEXIST

Adam J. Richter (adam@yggdrasil.com)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:00:07 -0800 (PST)

>On 1999-01-19 at 08:43:58, Adam J. Richter wrote:
>> Linux linux-2.2.0pre8 "mkdir ." return ENOENT instead of
>> EEXIST. This breaks the latest version of CVS when used on a local
>> repository. Linux-2.2.0pre7 did not appear to have this problem,
>> and I have definitely confirmed that pre2 did not have this problem.

Janos Farkas <chexum@shadow.banki.hu> wrote:
>When this happens, by chance, isn't "." a mount point? I can reproduce
>this, but only when trying to create a file/directory which is a mount
>point, and reported also to linux-kernel; it's probably the new
>check_parent() macro failing to take into account the specialities of
>mount points...

Yes, you're right. The problem only occurs on a mount point. This
problem (at least the manifestation in CVS) did not occur in 2.2.0-pre7,
and I have confirmed that even on a mount point it definitely does
not occur in 2.2.0-pre3. Thanks for narrowing it down.

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