On 1999-06-10 18:54:43 +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
> The man page continues to say
> Applications which use this system
> call must be coded to detect this failure and switch to
> using chdir() from that point on.
> which might be important for fixing this.
Using chdir() t
> (*--For what it's worth, the man page says, "fchdir() is
> provided as a performance enhancement and is guaranteed to fail
> under certain conditions.")
The man page continues to say
Applications which use this system
call must be coded to detect this failure and switch to
I am running mutt 0.95.{5,6}i on SunOS 4.1.4. It appears that
fchdir() often fails [*], and so the current directory is not
restored after it's changed by dotlock_invoke() in dotlock.c.
This causes nonsensical error messages when doing something
like "mutt -f ../../maildirectory/mailbox" (t
