Coda File System

Re: a bug in /coda/. contents lookup...

From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:24:42 -0400
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:03:17PM +0200, Ivan Popov wrote:
> I have spent this evening looking at the code and logs and still have not
> figured out where it happens. Giving up and reporting, may be Jan or
> somebody else can look at it.
> 
> When you try to ls /coda/something
> and "something" is existing realms, there is no problem at all.
> 
> When you supply an invalid realm (easiest is something that begins with
> a dot, but it can be any non-existent realm name), then any "new" lookups
> result in hanging symlinks. That survives Venus restart.
> (the realms having been successfuly listed stay accessible)

Ehh, I don't see a hanging symlink. Am I doing the right thing here?

    $ ls -l /coda/.foo.bar
    lrw-r--r--  1 root nogroup 3 2004-09-29 08:57 /coda/.foo.bar -> #@.
    $ ls -l /coda
    total 2
    drw-r--r--  3 root nogroup 2048 2003-06-04 16:59 coda.cs.cmu.edu

Jan
Received on 2004-09-29 09:25:47