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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2012-11-23 00:28:06 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2012-11-23 00:28:06 -0800 |
| commit | e6bac8768bfff6756ccf9b595e403821ff539036 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e101c650cb8c25f354828f445fc1da1e4fa494b | |
| parent | 95ef7787fb0a5786a2e4f150649aadfa687a15f2 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-e6bac8768bfff6756ccf9b595e403821ff539036.tar.gz | |
movemail: treat EACCES etc. failures as permanent
* movemail.c (main): Treat any link failure other than EEXIST as a
permanent failure, not just EPERM. EACCES, for example.
| -rw-r--r-- | lib-src/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib-src/movemail.c | 7 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib-src/ChangeLog b/lib-src/ChangeLog index 8e835795e6a..b85ba12a5b2 100644 --- a/lib-src/ChangeLog +++ b/lib-src/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2012-11-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + movemail: treat EACCES etc. failures as permanent + * movemail.c (main): Treat any link failure other than EEXIST as a + permanent failure, not just EPERM. EACCES, for example. + 2012-11-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Assume POSIX 1003.1-1988 or later for unistd.h (Bug#12945). diff --git a/lib-src/movemail.c b/lib-src/movemail.c index adc5dd96409..264b3d292c6 100644 --- a/lib-src/movemail.c +++ b/lib-src/movemail.c @@ -328,11 +328,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) tem = link (tempname, lockname); -#ifdef EPERM - if (tem < 0 && errno == EPERM) - fatal ("Unable to create hard link between %s and %s", - tempname, lockname); -#endif + if (tem < 0 && errno != EEXIST) + pfatal_with_name (lockname); unlink (tempname); if (tem >= 0) |