From: Neil Brown (neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au)
Date: 11/26/01-06:46:44 PM Z
From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:46:44 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <15362.57972.120059.962298@esther.cse.unsw.edu.au> Subject: Re: LINK a symbolic link? On Monday November 26, shepler@eng.sun.com wrote: > On Mon, Peter ?strand wrote: > > > > Is it valid to LINK a symbolic link? The Linux server currently returns > > NFS4ERR_SYMLINK in this case, but NFS4ERR_SYMLINK is not listed as a valid > > error for LINK in the draft specification. > > The type of the source object for the LINK operation can be a symbolic > link. The server should allow the LINK to succeed. I don't think that is reasonable. What is the server filesystem simply does not support hard links on symlinks. The file system use by the Domain/OS filesystem on apollo workstations (anyone remember those?) did not support hardlinks on symlinks though it did support hardlinks of files. I think the server should be able to fail hardlinks on symlinks much as it can on directories. Maybe NFS4ERR_NOTSUPP or similar would be appropriate. NeilBrown > > -- > Spencer
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