From: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Found the problem...
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 21:06:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510092106.00389.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200510090054.07750.rob@landley.net>
On Sunday 09 October 2005 07:54, Rob Landley wrote:
> 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...
Just to be sure: UML _does_ return an error code from lstat64, right? If not,
complain again please.
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2005-10-09 5:54 [uml-devel] Found the problem Rob Landley
2005-10-09 19:06 ` Blaisorblade [this message]
2005-10-09 22:37 ` Rob Landley
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