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Bug 678994 - Unable to overwrite files on vbox shared mounted filesystems
Unable to overwrite files on vbox shared mounted filesystems
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: gio
2.32.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtkdev
gtkdev
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-06-27 17:33 UTC by Tomasz Wisniewski
Modified: 2018-05-24 14:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
proposed workaround (3.76 KB, patch)
2012-06-27 17:48 UTC, Tomasz Wisniewski 		none Details | Review

Description Tomasz Wisniewski 2012-06-27 17:33:03 UTC 
The problem lies in the Vboxfs implementation (it also exists for samba). When trying to append to text files in gedit, an error message is generated:

"Error renaming temporary file: text file busy"

The problem is with that gedit employees asynchronous saving procedure provided by glib: g_output_stream_close_async/g_output_stream_close_finish. Inside those procedures a renaming of the temporary file is done into the destination file, unfortunately the SMB/Vbox filesystem do not allow renaming opened files, thus the call to rename() finishes up with ETXTBSY error.
Comment 1 Tomasz Wisniewski 2012-06-27 17:48:33 UTC 
Created attachment 217435 [details] [review]
proposed workaround

This is a workaround for samba and "Virtual Box shared" filesystem which does not support renaming opened files and react on such attempt with ETXTBSY
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 14:19:24 UTC 
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