Making FAT delete work

[Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>]

Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote:
> Thanks,
> 
> The patch worked fine, it just genarated some warnings about "hunk #x 
> succeed at line...".

And delete works now?

Please confirm so I can confidently commit the patch to the trunk and 
4.6 branch.

--joel

> Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp.com> escribió:
> 
>> Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm updating my application from RTEMS 4.5 to RTEMS 4.6.2. After some 
>>> work I made my flash driver work in the new version. But now I find 
>>> that 'unlink()' doesn't work anymore.
>>>
>>> As far as I can see, the problem is in the msdos_eval_path() 
>>> function. Before deleting the file, RTEMS try to check permissions 
>>> for ".." directory, but msdos_eval_path fails with 'ENOTDIR'. I want 
>>> to copy the IMFS functionality, but I'm not able to figure how to 
>>> open the parent node of a file on msdosfs.
>>>
>>> Maybe I'm missing something. Is there someone who is using FAT 
>>> support and is able to delete files?
>>
>>
>>
>> Is this PR744?  If so, there is an attached patch.  It was made versus
>> CVS but I don't see it applied to the CVS head.
>>
>> If you can make it work and submit it as a patch against 4.6 and the CVS
>> head, it would be greatly appreciated.  This needs to be fixed.
>>
>> I don't know what the issue was regarding this patch.  It is not 
>> uncommon for me to wait until there is a patch against 4.6 and CVS head
>> if the issue applies to both.
>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
>>>
>>
>>


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