On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:07:01PM +0100, Bernd Schubert wrote: > Hello Andi, > > sorry, due to some mail sending/refusing problems, I had to resend to the > nfs-list, which prevented the answers there to be posted to the other CCs. > > > It is most likely some kind of user space problem. I would change > > it to int err = stat(dir, &buf); > > and then go through it with gdb and see what value err gets assigned. > > > > I cannot see any kernel problem. > > The err value will become -1 here.
strace didn't say so, and normally it doesn't lie about things like this. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tests>./test_stat32 /mnt/test/yp > > stat for /mnt/test/yp failed > > ernno: 75 (Value too large for defined data type) errno is undefined unless a system call returned -1 before or you set it to 0 before. > > But why does stat64() on a 64-bit kernel tries to fill in larger data than A 64bit kernel has no stat64(). All stats are 64bit. > > on a 32-bit kernel and larger data also only for nfs-mount points? Hmm, I > > will tomorrow compare the tcp-packges sent by the server. > > So I still think thats a kernel bug. Your data so far doesn't support this assertion. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
