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At 11:39 AM 1/5/2001, Ray Easton wrote: >"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > > > Thanks Markus, this information is quite helpful. Since there isn't an issue > > with Samba, the Win32 APIs being used in Cygwin are clearly sufficient to > > provide the information required (i.e. file sizes in this case) in a network > > environment in general. However, in this particular case in this particular > > network environment, there may be an issue. I would guess that there is > > either a problem with permissions (which John has stated that he's looked at > > before) or there is some other Win32 API that provides the file size even with > > John's setup (which the DOS tools use and Cygwin does not). What is clear to > > me by all this is that the quickest way to resolve this issue is to debug the > > code, for better or worse... > > > > Larry > >I've seen fstat() returning zero problems many times in many contexts (though *not* >with cygwin) and in each case it has been due to bugs in the file server software -- >in which case debugging cygwin code will be useless. The quickest way to resolve the >issue is more likely simply to replace the file server software. No argument here with regards to the quick solution proposed. It appears that Samba functions quite nicely so I expect converting to use that as the file server is a quicker solution (with a more time-tested outcome). Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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