/*++ /* NAME /* sane_link 3 /* SUMMARY /* sanitize link() error returns /* SYNOPSIS /* #include /* /* int sane_link(from, to) /* const char *from; /* const char *to; /* DESCRIPTION /* sane_link() implements the link(2) system call, and works /* around some errors that are possible with NFS file systems. /* LICENSE /* .ad /* .fi /* The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software. /* AUTHOR(S) /* Wietse Venema /* IBM T.J. Watson Research /* P.O. Box 704 /* Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA /*--*/ /* System library. */ #include "sys_defs.h" #include #include #include /* Utility library. */ #include "msg.h" #include "sane_fsops.h" #include "warn_stat.h" /* sane_link - sanitize link() error returns */ int sane_link(const char *from, const char *to) { const char *myname = "sane_link"; int saved_errno; struct stat from_st; struct stat to_st; /* * Normal case: link() succeeds. */ if (link(from, to) >= 0) return (0); /* * Woops. Save errno, and see if the error is an NFS artifact. If it is, * pretend the error never happened. */ saved_errno = errno; if (stat(from, &from_st) >= 0 && stat(to, &to_st) >= 0 && from_st.st_dev == to_st.st_dev && from_st.st_ino == to_st.st_ino) { msg_info("%s(%s,%s): worked around spurious NFS error", myname, from, to); return (0); } /* * Nope, it didn't. Restore errno and report the error. */ errno = saved_errno; return (-1); }