Re: [Dovecot] More AFS maildir debugging

On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 18:53 +0000, pod wrote:

TS>  - create tmp file
TS>  - link() to .lock file
TS>  - unlink tmp file
TS>  - write to .lock file
TS>  - rename() to destination file

I think the problem here is that the rename will return EXDEV in a cross-directory situation if the file in question is also being held open.

Except that Dovecot doesn't do cross-directory link()s or rename()s here. They're all in the same directory and they still apparently don't work.

If anything returned EXDEV, it would be logged as error and Dovecot would give internal failure. Now it's just silently creating empty files without any syscalls giving errors.