Re: [1.7] rename/renameat error

[Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>]

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According to Corinna Vinschen on 9/23/2009 7:30 AM:
> Urgh.  I stumbled over the need_directory flag only two days ago.  while
> debugging the symlink errno problem you reported on the list.  CGF is my
> witness.  It's the reason I made the trailing slash change in symlink
> rather than in path_conv::check.  It's quite tricky to keep all possible
> cases working.  Have you tested this change with the entire coreutils
> testsuite?  It seems to be quite thorough.

Still running that, so I'll postpone any commits until further testing
completes.

> This part of the patch looks good to me.  I'm just sweating some
> blood over the need_directory change in path_conv::check due to my
> own experience.  Does it really not break something in the path
> handling?

For the last component, I haven't encountered anything it broke, but
several things (like link("file","missing/")) that were fixed.  But I'm
not completely positive how symlinks to multi-level directories will
behave, so I'm testing it further, and may need yet another tweak.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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