Re: [uml-devel] Found the problem...

2005-10-09 Thread Rob Landley
On Sunday 09 October 2005 14:06, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Sunday 09 October 2005 07:54, Rob Landley wrote: > > When attempting to stat a nonexistent file, 2.6.11 returned a consistent > > value in st_mode (B73C, every time), and 2.6.13 is returning random > > crap that varies from invocation to

Re: [uml-devel] Found the problem...

2005-10-09 Thread Blaisorblade
On Sunday 09 October 2005 07:54, Rob Landley wrote: > When attempting to stat a nonexistent file, 2.6.11 returned a consistent > value in st_mode (B73C, every time), and 2.6.13 is returning random > crap that varies from invocation to invocation. Hence the intermittent > failure. > > We _shoul

[uml-devel] Found the problem...

2005-10-09 Thread Rob Landley
When attempting to stat a nonexistent file, 2.6.11 returned a consistent value in st_mode (B73C, every time), and 2.6.13 is returning random crap that varies from invocation to invocation. Hence the intermittent failure. We _should_ be checking the error return value from lstat64() before l