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

[David Roundy]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 08:54:24AM +0200, Martin Schaffner wrote:
> Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > 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)?
> 
> This seems to work: I only get "1" if I am on the Windows share. However, 
> can we be sure this test gives us no false negatives, such that mmap is 
> used on a Windows-semantic mount? What about samba, can someone test this?

My test of this was with samba.  But I'm also concerned about using a test
that I don't really understand.  Juliusz, why did you guess that this is
the case, and why should we trust that it would be so on any system that
has this problem?
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