From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 14 08:37:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA04349 for current-outgoing; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 08:37:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA04342 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 08:37:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailbox.mcs.com (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.0/8.8.Beta.3) with SMTP id KAA22358; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:37:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mailbox.mcs.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.15) id ; Mon, 14 Oct 96 10:37 CDT Received: (from karl@localhost) by Jupiter.Mcs.Net (8.8.Beta.6/8.8.Beta.3) id KAA02831; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:37:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Karl Denninger Message-Id: <199610141537.KAA02831@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> Subject: Re: More on the disappearing directory problem To: michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:37:31 -0500 (CDT) Cc: karl@Mcs.Net, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Michael Hancock" at Oct 14, 96 03:30:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Karl Denninger wrote: > > > Errno = 2, which is "ENOENT", or the directory DISAPPEARED! (This is being > > returned by the "getcwd" system call) > > > > However, if you then do an "ls -la", you DO see the directory and its > > contents. > > Do you see the directory with plain ls? There is a significant > difference when you need to get attributes. > > Regards, > > > Mike Hancock Yes, including the parent (..). That's what really gets me -- finding this one so far as proved to be a royal bitch. Its the only remaining problem in the -current tree that prevents us from rolling it as a production release. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1 from $600 monthly; speeds to DS-3 available | 23 Chicagoland Prefixes, 13 ISDN, much more Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | Home of Chicago's only FULL Clarinet feed!