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udev and existing symlinks

PATCH Marco d'Itri 2 participants 3 messages Dec 25, 2003 – Dec 30, 2003

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Marco d'Itri

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Without this patch udev will fail when a symlink already exists.

udev-add.c +2 -0
diff -ruN udev-011.orig/udev-add.c udev-011/udev-add.c
@@ -223,6 +223,8 @@
 
 			dbg("symlink(%s, %s)", linktarget, filename);
 			retval = symlink(linktarget, filename);
+			if (retval && errno = EEXIST)
+			    retval = 0;
 			if (retval)
 				dbg("symlink(%s, %s) failed with error '%s'",
 				    linktarget, filename, strerror(errno));
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Quoted 6 lines · Marco d'Itri

Without this patch udev will fail when a symlink already exists.

diff -ruN udev-011.orig/udev-add.c udev-011/udev-add.c

udev-add.c line 230

Quoted 8 lines
udev-add.c +2 -0
@@ -223,6 +223,8 @@
 
 			dbg("symlink(%s, %s)", linktarget, filename);
 			retval = symlink(linktarget, filename);
+			if (retval && errno = EEXIST)
+			    retval = 0;
 			if (retval)
 				dbg("symlink(%s, %s) failed with error '%s'",
 				    linktarget, filename, strerror(errno));

The patch from Martin Schlemmer should keep this from happening, right?

thanks,

greg k-h

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Quoted 1 line · Greg KH

The patch from Martin Schlemmer should keep this from happening, right?

Yes.

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