svn commit: r203990 - head/lib/libc/sys

Jaakko Heinonen jh at FreeBSD.org
Thu Feb 25 19:51:46 UTC 2010


On 2010-02-18, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
> > namei() returns EISDIR for "/" (due to DELETE and and the special handling
> > of the degenerate case which includes "/" and not much else, else the bug
> > would affect more cases).
> 
> This causes a problem also for mkdir(2), rmdir(2) and rename(2). All of
> them incorrectly return EISDIR for "/".

Here is a patch which attempts to fix mkdir(2), rmdir(2), rename(2) and
unlink(2) errno return value for "/".

	http://people.freebsd.org/~jh/patches/lookup-root.diff

-- 
Jaakko


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