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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2025 20:26:11 +0200
From: Markus Wichmann <nullplan@....net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Viv Briffa <viv@...ce.technology>,
Stephen Von Takach <steve@...ce.technology>
Subject: Re: unlink on NFS volume fails silently
Am Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 04:25:31PM +1000 schrieb Stephen Von Takach:
> Hi,
>
> We recently had to move a service from being built on alpine linux to
> debian linux as we were getting silent failures when deleting a directory
> with many files on an NFS volume. Basically this call to unlink was not
> raising an error if the file failed to delete
> https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/blob/master/src/crystal/system/unix/file.cr#L129
>
> We replicated the issue in an alpine container with rm -rf
> /nfs_mount/git_repo_to_delete and it also failed to successfully delete all
> the files, it did raise an error though (I assume it checked the file was
> removed before continuing) not entirely sure.
>
> Both these operations succeed with glibc when using debian.
> Looks a bit like this issue:
> https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/10960
>
Neither unlink() nor readdir() are appreciably different between musl
and glibc, so I don't know what is going on. Could you strace the test
cases to see where the differences are?
Ciao,
Markus
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