[Gluster-devel] Fixing dht rename of directory symlink

[Emmanuel Dreyfus]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 05:56:42PM +0530, Anand Avati wrote:
> Your summary is accurate. Currently distribute assumes link(2)ability of
> non-directories to provide POSIX semantics that the destination path should
> always be accessible if a file already existed at the time of rename(2).

It seems this has been adressed by standards:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/link.html

The bottom line is just to use lnkat(2) instead of link(2). I will 
implement linkat support in NetBSD

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu at netbsd.org