Received: from spf5.us4.outblaze.com (spf5.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.27]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j192EPna001669 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 02:14:25 GMT Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by spf5.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C4ED76F1F for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 02:15:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cyhay-00046E-2O for migo@homemail.com; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:28:48 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CyhaN-00045i-Cg for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:28:11 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CyhaM-00045V-PQ for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:28:11 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyhXy-0003bQ-NY for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:25:42 -0500 Received: from [129.255.60.186] (helo=ct.radiology.uiowa.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cyh6E-0001rZ-8e for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 20:57:02 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.11] (12-217-241-0.client.mchsi.com [12.217.241.0]) by ct.radiology.uiowa.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j191v0303377; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:57:00 -0600 Message-ID: <42096DE7.2090801@arbash-meinel.com> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 19:56:55 -0600 From: John A Meinel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zenaan Harkness Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] vu_stat - PANIC: I/O error References: <1107912100.28119.166.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1107912100.28119.166.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Cc: arch X-BeenThere: gnu-arch-users@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: a discussion list for all things arch-ish List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0379875355==" Sender: gnu-arch-users-bounces+migo=homemail.com@gnu.org Errors-To: gnu-arch-users-bounces+migo=homemail.com@gnu.org Status: RO Content-Length: 1821 Lines: 63 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --===============0379875355== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig1EC1A30D4EFCD03221008CDF" This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1EC1A30D4EFCD03221008CDF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Zenaan Harkness wrote: >This is baffling me: > > I'm not sure, but I think some implementations of stat actually stat the file that a symlink is pointing to, rather than the symlink itself. If you created a symlink, and the file it pointed to was not changed, then in the patch directory, if the stat tries to follow the link, it would fail. I thought tla used lstat for this express purpose. I don't really know what to tell you for how to fix it, though. John =:-> --------------enig1EC1A30D4EFCD03221008CDF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCCW3nJdeBCYSNAAMRAoD2AJ0dqE2QuJDsdf7MPb4F2AXh8L5rHQCglnDw By4bmmJDye/Vg4IsOXRMsEg= =SOQF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1EC1A30D4EFCD03221008CDF-- --===============0379875355== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list Gnu-arch-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/ --===============0379875355==--