Re: [Monotone-devel] Solaris breakage

[William Uther]

On 24/07/2007, at 5:03 PM, Richard Levitte wrote:

> In message <address@hidden> on Tue,  
> 24 Jul 2007 08:39:45 +0200 (CEST), Richard Levitte  
> <address@hidden> said:
>
> richard> In message <E5C14D28- 
> address@hidden> on Tue, 24 Jul 2007  
> 16:22:02 +1000, William Uther <address@hidden>  
> said:
> richard>
> richard> willu.mailingLists> mtn: choose one with 'mtn checkout - 
> r<id>'
> richard> willu.mailingLists> mtn: error: could not remove '/ 
> zfs_space/export/home/mtbldbot/slave-dir/full-sparc-solaris10- 
> sunstudio11/build/tester_dir/clone_warning_with_multiple_heads/ 
> test_dir1': Invalid argument
> richard>
> richard> Especially the "Invalid argument" bullshit (sorry) gives me a
> richard> number of red flags.  Could there be a special file in there
> richard> that doesn't get removed?  Could it be that it was removed in
> richard> a different manner?  I've no clue, I've never played with
> richard> that file system...
>
> At this point, I'm at do_read_directory (in unix/fs.cc) and wondering
> if some things in there aren't a bit misplaced.  Why does it decide to
> ignore broken symlinks, especially when the consumers are supposed to
> remove them?  I dunno what zfs does, but having played with NFS and
> AFS, I've learned to expect the unexpected...

Yeah - broken symlinks should be returned as files I would have thought.

Will      :-}