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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [uml-devel] Found the problem...
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 00:54:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510090054.07750.rob@landley.net> (raw)

When attempting to stat a nonexistent file, 2.6.11 returned a consistent value 
in st_mode (BFFFF73C, every time), and 2.6.13 is returning random crap that 
varies from invocation to invocation.  Hence the intermittent failure.

We _should_ be checking the error return value from lstat64() before looking 
at S_ISDIR(), and I'll fix it.  Almost certainly, the value in there is 
random garbage off the stack, and 2.6.13 simply has different random garbage 
on the stack.

So it's not your problem...

Rob



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             reply	other threads:[~2005-10-09 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-09  5:54 Rob Landley [this message]
2005-10-09 19:06 ` [uml-devel] Found the problem Blaisorblade
2005-10-09 22:37   ` Rob Landley

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