From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: BAREBOX <barebox@lists.infradead.org>,
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] symlink fixes and improvements
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:17:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <179266423184.1236212.15186542461421072295.b4-ty@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261020-fs-symlink-fixes-v1-0-e7ac8c29b08a@pengutronix.de>
On Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:09:25 +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> symlinks in ramfs are created with the wrong filesize causing broken
> symlinks on envfs. Looking into this revealed other shortcomings which
> are fixed in this series. As a bonus the ln command gets an ignored
> -s option and also the link destination can now be an existing directory
> in which case it behaves like the linux ln command.
>
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/9] fs: ramfs: report symlink target length as st_size
https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=cd15bc4a65fa (link may not be stable)
[2/9] fs: qemu_fw_cfg: report symlink target length as st_size
https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=faf272c35164 (link may not be stable)
[3/9] fs: ramfs: create symlinks with mode 0777
https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=ed5758686e31 (link may not be stable)
[4/9] fs: follow absolute symlinks from the root directory
https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=e07c292387aa (link may not be stable)
[5/9] fs: allow trailing symlinks pointing to the root directory
https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=c70e06b18b0e (link may not be stable)
[6/9] fs: symlink: drop references taken by filename_create()
https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=5dd90a4b5928 (link may not be stable)
[7/9] test: self: dirfd: add tests for absolute symlinks
https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=057ba9a10c71 (link may not be stable)
[8/9] commands: ln: accept -s option
https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=106a564387c0 (link may not be stable)
[9/9] commands: ln: create link inside DEST if it is a directory
https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=d10ed69b6c4a (link may not be stable)
Best regards,
--
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-22 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-20 7:09 Sascha Hauer
2026-10-20 7:09 ` [PATCH 1/9] fs: ramfs: report symlink target length as st_size Sascha Hauer
2026-10-20 7:09 ` [PATCH 2/9] fs: qemu_fw_cfg: " Sascha Hauer
2026-10-20 7:09 ` [PATCH 3/9] fs: ramfs: create symlinks with mode 0777 Sascha Hauer
2026-10-20 7:09 ` [PATCH 4/9] fs: follow absolute symlinks from the root directory Sascha Hauer
2026-10-20 7:09 ` [PATCH 5/9] fs: allow trailing symlinks pointing to " Sascha Hauer
2026-10-20 7:09 ` [PATCH 6/9] fs: symlink: drop references taken by filename_create() Sascha Hauer
2026-10-20 7:09 ` [PATCH 7/9] test: self: dirfd: add tests for absolute symlinks Sascha Hauer
2026-10-20 7:09 ` [PATCH 8/9] commands: ln: accept -s option Sascha Hauer
2026-10-20 7:09 ` [PATCH 9/9] commands: ln: create link inside DEST if it is a directory Sascha Hauer
2026-10-22 10:17 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
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