Re: Bug#303596: Emacs installation fails on vfat fs
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 12:01:53AM -0700, Stephen Gildea wrote:
> I also point out that if a chown/chmod operation by root on an existent
> directory fails, there's nothing to be done about it, whether you notice
> it or not.
My response would be inclined to be "run fsck". Programs should report
this kind of error and fail, because it may be the first sign of
filesystem corruption.
> > And regarding the example, it's just this, an example, and therefor
> > probably not really a policy recomendation in itself.
>
> I agree. I notice that the example script fragment in 9.1.2 will not
> fail if the mkdir (the most important operation) fails. Thus I suspect
> that the script's failing if the chown or chmod fails is a bug in the
> example script.
There's a good reason (specified above it) why the script doesn't fail
if the mkdir fails, but given that the mkdir has succeeded I think it
should be entitled to expect normal POSIX filesystem semantics after
that.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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