Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] vu_stat - PANIC: I/O error
From: Zenaan Harkness <zen@CashPoolComps.com>
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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 13:02:00 +1100
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On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 19:56 -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
> 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.

Is there a version that is known to work in this scenario?

$ tla --version
tla tla-1.3-1 from regexps.com
...

tia
zen


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