Re: [PATCH 11/16] samba-eintr-fix.diff

Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01T19:28:52Z

On Apr 1 2007 15:09, Dave Jones wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 08:16:22PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> > From: Dave Jones
> > Already posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/7/255
>
>I had to stop and think if this was an April 1st :)

Read the mail entitled "[PATCH 0/16] Assorted patches".

>As to whether the patch is worthwhile/correct..
>I really don't know. I posted it back then in the hopes
>that someone smbfs-savvy would pop up and review it.
>As you can see from the archive, no-one did.

It seems to have been resent once, 7 days after you:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/15/231

At that time, I had experienced strange copy failures ("No such file or
directory") while the directory being copied was not modified. With the
patch, I at least got EINTR instead of ENOENT, which I think made cp
think once more to retry.

Jan
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