Folder can be renamed with an open file inside the same folder from different client

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 07:01:26AM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Shilpa K <shilpa.krishnareddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Renaming a folder succeeds in the following scenario when it should
> > actually fail:
> >
> > 1.      Client 1 has opened the file temp.doc which is present in the
> > directory TESTDIR
> >
> > 2.      Client 2 tries to rename the directory TESTDIR to DIR1 and it
> > succeeds.
> >
> > On the other hand, if the windows client tries to rename a directory from
> > client 2 wherein client 1 has opened a file under that directory, the
> > operation results in access denied. Samba also sends access denied error
> > when we try to rename the directory from the same client where the file is
> > opened under it.
> 
> OK, this sounds like a bug. Please file a bug in bugzilla.samba.org.

It is a bug. It's just really hard to fix efficiently given
our inode-based databases.

Volker

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