From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: 54180@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#54180] [PATCH 00/12] Home: Clarify and better test symlink-manager.scm
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:28:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874k46yudc.fsf_-_@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66bb9a617542057fe6c536631927d94c530dc173.camel@telenet.be> (Maxime Devos's message of "Sun, 27 Feb 2022 16:58:09 +0100")
Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès schreef op zo 27-02-2022 om 14:53 [+0100]:
>> (file-exists? (get-target-path path))
>> [... other uses of file-exists? ...]
Note that this patch just shuffles code around; it does not introduce
new ‘file-exists?’ calls.
> 'file-exists?' does not simply check whether the file exists.
> E.g., when there is some permission error, then it returns #false.
>
> I think that in case of an permission error, it would best be reported
> to the user, so I think a variant of 'file-exists?' may be needed.
I believe later patches mostly address this by avoiding separate ‘stat’
calls (‘file-exists?’ is a thin wrapper around ‘stat’).
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-27 13:40 [bug#54180] [PATCH 00/12] Home: Clarify and better test symlink-manager.scm Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-27 13:53 ` [bug#54180] [PATCH 01/12] home: symlink-manager: Clarify module imports Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-27 13:53 ` [bug#54180] [PATCH 02/12] home: symlink-manager: Move helper procedures as top-level defines Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-27 15:58 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-10 10:28 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-02-27 13:53 ` [bug#54180] [PATCH 03/12] home: symlink-manager: Use 'for-each' when used for effects Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-27 13:53 ` [bug#54180] [PATCH 04/12] home: symlink-manager: Use 'file-is-directory?' Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-27 13:53 ` [bug#54180] [PATCH 05/12] home: symlink-manager: Remove 'empty-directory?' and avoid TOCTTOU race Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-27 15:54 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-05 22:19 ` [bug#54180] [PATCH 00/12] Home: Clarify and better test symlink-manager.scm Ludovic Courtès
2022-03-05 22:37 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-27 13:53 ` [bug#54180] [PATCH 06/12] home: symlink-manager: Avoid extra 'lstat' call Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-27 15:52 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-27 13:53 ` [bug#54180] [PATCH 07/12] tests: Make sure 'guix home reconfigure' backs up files Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-27 13:53 ` [bug#54180] [PATCH 08/12] tests: Simplify use of 'local-file' in 'tests/guix-home.sh' Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-27 13:53 ` [bug#54180] [PATCH 09/12] tests: Check 'guix home reconfigure' for a second generation Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-27 15:49 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-05 22:20 ` [bug#54180] [PATCH 00/12] Home: Clarify and better test symlink-manager.scm Ludovic Courtès
2022-03-05 22:27 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-05 22:38 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-10 10:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-03-10 10:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-27 13:53 ` [bug#54180] [PATCH 10/12] home: symlink-manager: 'cleanup-symlinks' uses 'file-system-fold' Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-27 13:53 ` [bug#54180] [PATCH 11/12] home: symlink-manager: 'create-symlinks' " Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-27 16:00 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-27 13:53 ` [bug#54180] [PATCH 12/12] home: symlink-manager: Rename "path" to "file" where appropriate Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-28 7:53 ` [bug#54180] [PATCH 00/12] Home: Clarify and better test symlink-manager.scm Andrew Tropin
2022-03-10 10:45 ` bug#54180: " Ludovic Courtès
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