[darcs-users] bug with exotic file names?

[Matthias Fischmann]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 02:03:03AM +0000, Jamie Webb wrote:
> Have you tried using strace to see exactly what's failing? For 

shows nothing much:

26398 lstat64("/home/fis/tmp/diss/_darcs/pristine/tex/figures/fig_I01:crypto:security:hierarchy_of_attacks.png", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=858345, ...}) = 0

an exit code of '0' means all is well, right?

before that, the 'figure' directory is entered once and immediately
left again, and then opened and read a little later.  but there is no
call to open with anything even close to this filename.

oops?  when i strace the official darcs binary without my debugging
output, even less interesting stuff happens:

| $ grep figures trace
| 27481 getcwd("/home/fis/tmp/diss_1/tex/figures", 4096) = 33
| 27481 getcwd("/home/fis/tmp/diss_1/tex/figures", 4096) = 33
| 27481 chdir("/home/fis/tmp/diss_1/tex/figures") = 0
| 27481 getcwd("/home/fis/tmp/diss_1/tex/figures", 4096) = 33

how does get_slurp know the file is not in figures without even
looking?

how can i purge all patches and files from the repository that this
funny file does not depend on?  (obliterate, yes, but how do i find
them?)  then i could publish the poor thing and everybody could have a
look at it.  (if anybody wants to have the entire thing, that's fine
with me, too: it's 4MB and not all that confidential.)

matthias
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