Reporting broken symlinks to clients

[Ira Cooper]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Scott Lovenberg
<scott.lovenberg at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Ira Cooper <ira at samba.org> wrote:
> > One of the simpler use cases is removal of a directory recursively.  If
> > there's a symlink in the directory the windows client can't find.  It
> can't
> > remove it, and then it can't remove the directory.
> >
> > -Ira
>
> If I'm understanding this correctly, you're saying that you'd like
> Windows clients to throw an error during an "rm -rf" when the symlink
> doesn't resolve?  I understand the idea behind it, but that's exactly
> the kind of stuff that drives me crazy when I walk away from a long
> running process (in this case a large delete from the top level) and
> Windows has halted in its tracks early because an exception occurred.
>
> Why would we want this?  The link doesn't go anywhere, so let it be
> deleted.  Handle the invalid input as you normally would, disregard it
> if it doesn't have a side effect.  Am I out of line with this line of
> thinking?
>

I believe they do today, in 3.6.

-Ira