From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:28:06 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: movemail: treat EACCES etc. failures as permanent
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movemail: treat EACCES etc. failures as permanent

* movemail.c (main): Treat any link failure other than EEXIST as a
permanent failure, not just EPERM.  EACCES, for example.
---

diff --git a/lib-src/ChangeLog b/lib-src/ChangeLog
index 8e835795e6a..b85ba12a5b2 100644
--- a/lib-src/ChangeLog
+++ b/lib-src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2012-11-23  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+	movemail: treat EACCES etc. failures as permanent
+	* movemail.c (main): Treat any link failure other than EEXIST as a
+	permanent failure, not just EPERM.  EACCES, for example.
+
 2012-11-21  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
 	Assume POSIX 1003.1-1988 or later for unistd.h (Bug#12945).
diff --git a/lib-src/movemail.c b/lib-src/movemail.c
index adc5dd96409..264b3d292c6 100644
--- a/lib-src/movemail.c
+++ b/lib-src/movemail.c
@@ -328,11 +328,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
 
 	  tem = link (tempname, lockname);
 
-#ifdef EPERM
-	  if (tem < 0 && errno == EPERM)
-	    fatal ("Unable to create hard link between %s and %s",
-		   tempname, lockname);
-#endif
+	  if (tem < 0 && errno != EEXIST)
+	    pfatal_with_name (lockname);
 
 	  unlink (tempname);
 	  if (tem >= 0)