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Date:	Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:06:42 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To:	Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: sftp
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In-Reply-To:	<3ACD86BC.E5B7794D@gmx.de>; from ronald.hecht@gmx.de on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:05:00AM +0200

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:05:00AM +0200, Ronald Hecht wrote:
>I tracked down the problem to the "(dp = readdir(dirp)) != NULL)"
>command in process_readdir of sftp-server.c. The readdir function seems
>to crash when it's called the second time. The main difference between
>the first time it's called and the second is the value of
>dirp->__d_dirent.__d_position. At the first time it's zero. The second
>time nonzero (actually the last position of the directory). I set it to
>zero, to see what happens and readdir is working correctly (lists the
>directory again).
>
>Hope, this helps a bit.

Did you look at the readdir code?  Setting __d_position to zero really doesn't
make sense in repeated readdir calls.  I don't think this is a useful debugging
point.  If you are able to debug things to this point, can't you figure out
exactly why it is core dumping?

cgf

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