Reporting broken symlinks to clients

[Scott Lovenberg]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Ira Cooper <ira at samba.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Scott Lovenberg <scott.lovenberg at gmail.com>
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>> 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.
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>> > -Ira
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
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> I believe they do today, in 3.6.
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> -Ira

IMHO, that sounds broken.  Whether the responsibility is on the client
or server is another matter. :(

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Peace and Blessings,
-Scott.