Hoi,
I was moving my newest, and personally modified, version of nmh to a
different system. Now I encountered an error:
mhbuild: unable to rename output /home/meillo/Mail/sendwvJV2J to
/home/meillo/Mailmhbuild29ELnc: Invalid cross-device link
The cross-device link error comes from ~/Mail being a symlink to
another device:
lrwxrwxrwx [...] /home/meillo/Mail -> /data/mail/
The point is, the second path (`/home/meillo/Mailmhbuild29ELnc') is
missing a slash.
I tracked the problem down.
uip/mhbuild.c in main():
357 /* output MIME message to this temporary file */
358 strncpy(outfile, m_mktemp2(compfile, invo_name, NULL, &fp_out),
359 sizeof(outfile));
If you print `outfile' you see the wrong path.
The problem comes from sbr/m_mktemp.c in m_mktemp2():
122 if ((cp = r1bindex ((char *)dir_in, '/')) == dir_in) {
123 /* No directory component */
124 return m_mktemp(pfx_in, fd_ret, fp_ret);
125 }
126 n = (int)(cp-dir_in-1); /* Length of dir component */
127 snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%.*s%s", n, dir_in, pfx_in);
128 return m_mktemp(buffer, fd_ret, fp_ret);
`cp - dir_in - 1' excludes the trailing slash.
I don't know, and unfortunately don't have time to find out, where to
fix.
If the mail storage is no symlink to another device, one might not
notice this bug at all.
Maybe it is present in any use of m_mktemp2(), maybe only in those
with the first argument non-NULL.
A trivial hack to fix the problem is `126s/-1//' in sbr/m_mktemp.c.
But I have not clue if this solves the problem right, it just made
things work again for me.
Would be great if someone goes for the problem. I think I will be able
to test a fix.
meillo
P.S.
Both files were not modified by my modifications.
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