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From: Matt Armstrong <gmatta@gmail.com>
To: "Peter" <craven@gmx.net>
Cc: 46397@debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: bug#46397: 27.1; Cannot delete buffer pointing to a file in a path that includes a file
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:26:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2a6sckbth.fsf@matts-mbp-2016.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2k0rgkdlr.fsf@matts-mbp-2016.lan> (Matt Armstrong's message of "Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:47:44 -0800")

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Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org> writes:

> "Peter" <craven@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> The following steps reproduce this:
>> - Make sure /tmp/tmp does not exist
>> - Open a buffer /tmp/tmp/foo.txt
>> - Make some changes to the buffer.
>> - Do *not* save the buffer or create the directory /tmp/tmp/
>> - Create /tmp/tmp as a *file* (not a directory)
>> - Try to kill the buffer.
>>
>> You will see the following error message:
>>
>> Unlocking file: Not a directory, /tmp/tmp/foo.txt
>>
>> I just want to kill the buffer, I don't want to save it.

[...]

> The backtrace is unsurprising:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Unlocking file" "Not a directory" "/private/tmp/tmp/test.txt")
>   kill-buffer("test.txt")
>   funcall-interactively(kill-buffer "test.txt")
>   call-interactively(kill-buffer nil nil)
>   command-execute(kill-buffer)

I found that this behavior was introduced by Paul Egger's commit
9dc306b1db0, discussed in Bug#37389.  I've cc'd Paul.

Paul's commit changed unlock_file() (from src/filelock.cc) to report
errors from unlink(), excempting only ENOENT. This bug demonstrates a
way to induce an ENOTDIR error. I've attached a patch that ignores
ENOTDIR as well, which is the most conservative fix I can think of. It
also seems in-line with Paul's original intent, since he was saying that
both ENOENT and ENOTDIR are usually "tame."


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From fc0b7f2595bd8680952f062d2dd5261f94394e1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 16:14:28 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Ignore ENOTDIR errors from unlink().

* src/filelock.c (unlock_file): Ignore ENOTDIR errors from unlink().
---
 src/filelock.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/filelock.c b/src/filelock.c
index 35baa0c666..af5683f365 100644
--- a/src/filelock.c
+++ b/src/filelock.c
@@ -731,7 +731,8 @@ unlock_file (Lisp_Object fn)
   MAKE_LOCK_NAME (lfname, fn);
 
   int err = current_lock_owner (0, lfname);
-  if (err == -2 && unlink (lfname) != 0 && errno != ENOENT)
+  if (err == -2 && unlink (lfname) != 0
+      && (errno != ENOENT && errno != ENOTDIR))
     err = errno;
   if (0 < err)
     report_file_errno ("Unlocking file", filename, err);
-- 
2.30.0


      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-10  0:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-09  9:47 bug#46397: 27.1; Cannot delete buffer pointing to a file in a path that includes a file Peter
2021-02-09 23:47 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-10  0:23   ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-10 15:05     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-10 19:23       ` Paul Eggert
2021-02-10 19:45         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-10 22:39           ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-12  7:43             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-12  9:36               ` Paul Eggert
2021-02-12 11:33                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-12 23:59                   ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-13  8:07                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-11 22:14         ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-12  2:20           ` Paul Eggert
2021-02-12  7:15             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-13  1:15               ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-13  1:26                 ` Paul Eggert
2021-02-13  8:21                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-13  8:28                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-14  0:49                   ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-14 19:22                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-14 22:16                       ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-15 15:09                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-16  0:49                           ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-16  1:55                             ` Paul Eggert
2021-02-16 15:06                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-16 11:53                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 19:24                             ` bug#46397: [PATCH] " Matt Armstrong
2021-02-19 19:10                           ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-19 19:23                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-19 21:46                               ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-20  9:09                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-21  0:36                                   ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-21 23:43                                     ` Mike Kupfer
2021-02-22  1:42                                       ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-14 18:03                                         ` Bill Wohler
2021-03-17 23:36                                           ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-24 17:37                                     ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-24 18:50                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-01 16:59                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-05 22:19                                         ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-06  9:36                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-06 23:39                                             ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-07  2:50                                             ` Paul Eggert
2021-03-07  5:57                                               ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-19 19:45                             ` Paul Eggert
2021-02-19 21:52                               ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-08  2:18                               ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-11 14:34                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-17 23:49                                   ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-17 23:51                                   ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-20 10:43                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-22  1:43                                       ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-27  9:20                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-10  0:26   ` Matt Armstrong [this message]

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