bug#1736: [Hendrik Tews] movemail loops if hard links are not supported

[Sven Joachim]

On filesystems that do not support hard links, movemail will enter an
endless loop.  It would probably be more prudent to error if link(2)
fails with EPERM.

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> Bug#384993: emacs21-bin-common: movemail loops if hard links are not supported
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> Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:18:22 +0200
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> Package: emacs21-bin-common
> Version: 21.4a-3
> Severity: normal
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> movemail does not check the error code after creating the hard
> link in line 344:
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>           tem = link (tempname, lockname);
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> As a result it loops if the link fails with -1 EPERM (Operation
> not permitted). This happens for instance on smbfs mounted
> directories, because smbfs 3.0.22-1 does not support hard links
> any more (it used to).
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> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-k7-smp
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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> Versions of packages emacs21-bin-common depends on:
> ii  emacs21-common                21.4a-3    The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
> ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
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> emacs21-bin-common recommends no packages.
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> -- no debconf information
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> Bye,
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> Hendrik
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