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Re: stat("/dev/null",... broken
Hi!
Friday, 13 July, 2001 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com wrote:
EB> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:17:49PM -0600, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> >The error happens with the newest dll and NOT with the 2001-05-30 dll.
>>
>> Ok. Your test case has a bug. Is that intentional? You're passing
>> an invalid pointer as argument two.
>>
>> I just tested this with the most recent cvs version and 'ls -l' which
>> had no problems with this, so I assumed that this was an "old dll"
>> problem.
EB> Oh, sorry. It still doesn't look correct in the strace though. See the
EB> error in path_conv::update_fs_info.
i think message in path_conv::update_fs_info doesn't indicate any
problems. since /dev/null doesn't reside on any real file system, we
won't get fs info for it. this info doesn't have much sense anyway.
Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19