Hard link to root-owned file now fails (since Fedora 19)

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Tue Jul 16 11:41:05 UTC 2013


On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 10:42 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> FWIW this change caused a segfault in OpenStack 

This phrase is very dramatic.  I'd say "triggered a double free in an
untested libguestfs error path" is more accurate and less dramatic.

Really it had nothing to do with hard links at all - the same symptom
could have happened on ENOSPC for write().






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