[Dovecot] More AFS maildir debugging

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Jan 24 16:41:49 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 14:47 +0000, pod wrote:
> >>>>> "TS" == Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:
> 
>     TS> I googled a bit and saw something about hard links being supported
>     TS> but only within a directory. Or maybe that was about symlinks.
> 
> Hard links work but only within the same directory.

Yes, that's why I found it a bit weird that they didn't really work with
Dovecot. I guess it doesn't like some part in this:

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

Because the destination file was left empty.

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