* 21.3 peculiar error: directory-files fails on SAMBA 3.0.10 mounts
@ 2005-01-21 9:21 Jari Aalto
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From: Jari Aalto @ 2005-01-21 9:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
This is a peculiar error, which I have come accross several times, but
which is hard to demonstrate, because it appears randomly. In any
case, I'm reporting it so that perhaps inspecting the file reading
code in C level could reveal something.
There seems to be some reading problem with `directory-files' which is
sometimes unable to read local user's smbmount(1) directrories.
Test system:
Debian/unstable
ii samba 3.0.10-1 a LanManager-like file and printer server fo
ii samba-common 3.0.10-1 Samba common files used by both the server a
Mounted as local user with smbmount(1). Target system is Windows 2000 sp4.
Output from mount(1):
//w2kpicasso/jaalto on /home/jaalto/var/mount/jaalto type smbfs (rw)
Normal listing calls succeed at OS level:
$ ls /home/jaalto/var/mount/jaalto OK
Normal dired calls succeed in Emacs too. I assume that's because
external ls(1) call is used:
C-x d /home/jaalto/var/mount/jaalto
But lisp level call doesn't
(directory-files "/home/jaalto/var/mount/jaalto")
-> returns nil or sometimes message "interrupted system call" is
flashed during tests.
debug-on-error was t and debug-ignored-error nil during tests.
How the situation could possibly be triggered:
1. Keep emacs running
2. smbmount, smbumount file system several times
3. try directory-files
The situation is corrected by shutting down emacs and starting it again,
but the underlying problem is there waiting to appear again.
Jari
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