Re: [PATCH][RFT] smbfs bugfixes for 2.4.4

From: Urban Widmark (urban@teststation.com)
Date: Tue May 22 2001 - 18:12:21 EST


On Wed, 23 May 2001, Xuan Baldauf wrote:

> Urban Widmark wrote:
>
> > The only other way I have found so far to get it to return the right file
> > size is to do a "seek-to-end". That still means an extra SMB but it avoids
> > the very painful "sync to disk".
> >
> > Fortunately the seek is only necessary when refreshing inode info, on a
> > "win95" server, on a file that is open and that we have written to.
>
> Maybe it is also a workaround for the problem where changes on the
> windows side are not reflected?

Yes, that was the point of removing the LOCALWRITE flag in the first
place. As far as I can tell this should still fix the file cache/sync
problems that have been found.

> Is it possible to resend the patch in mime format or publish it somewhere accessible by an URL? Netscape Messenger
> creates spaces everywhere where tabs should be :-(

Certainly.

/Urban



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