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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:18:15 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1 readdir() not returning complete directory entries for  network paths after rewinddir()
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On Oct 23 16:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 23 13:50, Benjamin Lindner wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > Issuing a rewinddir() on a mounted network path caues successive calls 
> > to readdir() to only return "." and ".." ignoring the actual further 
> > content of the directory.
> > [...]
> Further debugging showed that this is a bug in W2K.  The function
> NtQueryDirectoryFile apparently ignores the "RestartScan" parameter when
> being called on a remote directory.  It does not depend on the file
> system type, it happens with remote FAT, NTFS as well as Samba shares.
> This bug is not present in NT4, nor in XP and above.

I've applied a patch to CVS.  Please give the next developer's snapshot
from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try.


Thanks,
Corinna

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