On Jan 15 18:22, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Corinna Vinschen on 1/15/2008 7:32 AM: > |> 8808978157900 drwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 0 Jan 15 14:46 subdir > |> 8808978157900 drwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 0 Jan 15 14:46 symlink > |> [...] > |> I have no idea why Samba doesn't return the correct i-node number for > |> symlinks. This is most unfortunate. > | > | Eric, maybe cp(1) can be pushed up a bit by checking the number of > | hardlinks on the file? Two files with identical i-nodes are only > | actually hardlinks to the same file if the number of links is equal > | and > 1? > > I'm not sure how useful that would be. I already do something similar for > checking whether two spellings represent the same file with different > case, but it adds time and the potential for race conditions. It seems > like it would be better to work around this samba bug in samba itself, or > in cygwin1.dll so that all cygwin apps will benefit, rather than > special-casing and slowing cp even further.
Sigh, I guess you're right. I hate having to use fake i-node numbers for Samba. I will report the problem in Samba's bugzilla and see if there's a chance to fix this in a future release. IMHO, it doesn't make sense to have identical i-node numbers but a link count of 1. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
