[darcs-devel] Re: [darcs-users] strange bug with Windows share mounted on Mac OS X

David Roundy droundy at abridgegame.org
Wed Oct 20 04:55:33 PDT 2004


On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 08:40:00PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > This change makes darcs check before mmapping whether it is possible to
> > delete an open file.  It's an ugly hack, but seems necesary, since
> > there's no other way I'm aware of to find out whether it's safe to mmap
> > files.  :(
> 
> Suing Apple might be a more elegant solution.

:)

> Hmm...  What about stat-ing "." and checking if the link count is 1?
> 
> Could someone running Mac OS X run ``ls -ld .'' in a Windows share and
> tell us what's the link count (second column)? 

Indeed the link count is 1 on the samba share.
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David Roundy
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