Bug 102873 – rm hangs while deleting symlinks

Bug 102873 - rm hangs while deleting symlinks

Summary:	rm hangs while deleting symlinks

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	fileutils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Tim Waugh
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Reported:	2003-08-21 22:33 EDT by Andrei Gaponenko
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:57 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-10-03 08:02:08 EDT
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Description Andrei Gaponenko 2003-08-21 22:33:20 EDT

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Description of problem:
The rm command hangs when trying to delete a symlink on localdisk,
which points to a file on a hang NFS mount.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fileutils-4.1.9-11

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ln -s /some_junk .
2. strace /bin/rm ./some_junk
3. Observe the calls:

access("./some_junk", W_OK)             = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("./some_junk", 0xbfffdcd0)       = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Presently rm gets stuck in access(), but the stat64() call is just as bad.  
WHY did they appear in rm in the first place???

Actual Results:  rm symlink_on_local_filesystem hangs

Expected Results:  operations on local filesystem should never hang.

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Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2003-10-03 08:02:08 EDT

I think this should be fixed in rawhide; it is very similar to another problem
that was fixed.

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