diff options
| author | Vijay Bellur <vbellur@redhat.com> | 2014-01-03 11:59:43 +0530 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Anand Avati <avati@redhat.com> | 2014-01-14 00:31:20 -0800 |
| commit | 54bf0ba4698a2d46db3485cc12ae04dd90349570 (patch) | |
| tree | 17b3c8ef5c43e52db14f9bd00c92ecd82dceb385 /libglusterfs | |
| parent | 3af42583dd804371952d61e9d7ff4c640e67ba0d (diff) | |
consolidate code for #ifdef HAVE_LINKAT usage
sys_link() now does
ifdef HAVE_LINKAT
linkat (...)
else
link (...)
endif
Use sys_link() in all places where we previously had the
conditional behavior.
Change-Id: I8bce5ac1175efd2ba7ab4bb5b372f6d1e0365d28
BUG: 764655
Signed-off-by: Vijay Bellur <vbellur@redhat.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/6633
Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com>
Reviewed-by: Xavier Hernandez <xhernandez@datalab.es>
Reviewed-by: Anand Avati <avati@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'libglusterfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | libglusterfs/src/syscall.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libglusterfs/src/syscall.c b/libglusterfs/src/syscall.c index 117fa209e..d1b9ef84c 100644 --- a/libglusterfs/src/syscall.c +++ b/libglusterfs/src/syscall.c @@ -121,7 +121,13 @@ int sys_link (const char *oldpath, const char *newpath) { #ifdef HAVE_LINKAT - /* see HAVE_LINKAT in xlators/storage/posix/src/posix.c */ + /* + * On most systems (Linux being the notable exception), link(2) + * first resolves symlinks. If the target is a directory or + * is nonexistent, it will fail. linkat(2) operates on the + * symlink instead of its target when the AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW + * flag is not supplied. + */ return linkat (AT_FDCWD, oldpath, AT_FDCWD, newpath, 0); #else return link (oldpath, newpath); |