Bug#107826: can not create file through a dangling symlink

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 05:23:35PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> This behavior is implemented explicitly in libdiskfs/dir-lookup.c line 374:
> 
>            /* Symlinks to nonexistent files aren't allowed to cause
>              creation, so clear the flag here. */
>            create = 0;
> 
> Try removing that line and see if everything works right.

dir-lookup.c:121:diskfs_S_dir_lookup: Assertion (!ds) failed.

> In skimming a couple parts of the spec, I also noticed it now explicitly
> says that a lookup of "" must fail.  So we should change this too.

Yes.
 
Thanks,
Marcus

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