GNU bug report logs - #44631
28.0.50; Byte compilation fails if destination file is a mount point

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Reported by: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 12:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 44631 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44631: 28.0.50; Byte compilation fails if destination file is a mount point
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 17:04:04 +0100

Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Granted, this is rather exotic.

It's really exotic.  :-)  I'm just wondering -- did you happen upon this
while trying to do something, or is it just designed to trigger the bug?

> Nevertheless, byte-compile-file could
> fall back to a direct write-region without temporary file + rename, or
> rename-file could fall back to copy + remove on EBUSY (like EXDEV).

Hm...  the latter sounds like an easy fix, but aren't there more commond
cases where you get EBUSY where copy + remove would fail, too?

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