[Libguestfs] [PATCH 1/5] fuse: Fix symlink creation (RHBZ#538069).

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:56:53PM +0000, Matthew Booth wrote:
> On 17/11/09 17:06, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> From 93514b1fdb56a0cb6b85b79aff9f08fbd71a9560 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Richard Jones<rjones at redhat.com>
>> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:59:52 +0000
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/5] fuse: Fix symlink creation (RHBZ#538069).
>>
>> The parameters were swapped, preventing symlinks from being created.
>> Furthermore, we need to invalidate the cache for both parameters.
>> ---
>>   fuse/guestmount.c |    3 ++-
>>   1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fuse/guestmount.c b/fuse/guestmount.c
>> index 739d8cb..8e081a6 100644
>> --- a/fuse/guestmount.c
>> +++ b/fuse/guestmount.c
>> @@ -425,9 +425,10 @@ fg_symlink (const char *from, const char *to)
>>
>>     if (read_only) return -EROFS;
>>
>> +  dir_cache_invalidate (from);
>
> As discussed on IRC, this isn't necessary (and could be confusing).
>
>>     dir_cache_invalidate (to);
>>
>> -  r = guestfs_ln_s (g, to, from);
>> +  r = guestfs_ln_s (g, from, to);
>>     if (r == -1)
>>       return error ();
>>
>> -- 1.6.5.2
>
> Apart from that, ACK.

Thanks - pushed without the extra cache invalidation, and also
tested this it's not necessary.

Rich.

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