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From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Subject:  Re: [1.7] bug in chdir
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:58:33 +0000 (UTC)
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Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:

> > $ ls -dF //eblake //home //bin
> > ls: cannot access //bin: No such file or directory
> > //eblake/  //home/
> > 
> > 
> > I guess that means, since //bin failed but //home succeeded, that there is
> > a machine on the domain at my work which is named home but which is
> > offline at the moment?

(confusing enough?  who names their work machine 'home'?)

> 
> It seems so.  The fact that accessing //home does not create an
> exception points to a successful SMB name resolution.

Of course, my work domain is so big that 'echo //hom*' takes minutes, due to 
the large number of known hosts that are not currently accessible, so I can't 
easily test whether //home is a known host using readdir.  But it seems like 
this problem could be recreated on a much smaller network, by just 
disconnecting an appropriate machine from the network (although I won't be able 
to try that until I'm back home).  It still seems like chdir() should do some 
sort of stat() test rather than just a successful SMB name resolution when 
attempting to change to //name.

-- 
Eric Blake



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