On 21 Okt, 17:13, James Vega <james...@jamessan.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Arve Knudsen <arve.knud...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 21 Okt, 13:58, James Vega <james...@jamessan.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 02:33:46AM -0700, Arve Knudsen wrote:
> >> > I have a very annoying problem with the x64 build of Vim 7.2 on
> >> > Windows 7, for some reason it creates files named "4913" during
> >> > editing. Is this a bug, or maybe triggered by a problem with my
> >> > system?
>
> >> As a quick Google would tell you, Vim creates this file in an attempt to
> >> verify it can create a file in the directory in which you see the file
> >> and set the uid/gid. It's just a temporary file used during the process
> >> of creating a backup file.
>
> > I did Google it, and found that it could be a problem on network-
> > filesystems? The problem is that it *isn't* temporary, it persists.
>
> Here's the code:
>
> 3486 for (i = 4913; ; i += 123)
> 3487 {
> 3488 sprintf((char *)gettail(IObuff), "%d", i);
> 3489 if (mch_lstat((char *)IObuff, &st) < 0)
> 3490 break;
> 3491 }
> 3492 fd = mch_open((char *)IObuff,
> 3493
> O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_EXCL|O_NOFOLLOW, perm);
> 3494 if (fd < 0) /* can't write in directory */
> 3495 backup_copy = TRUE;
> 3496 else
> 3497 {
> 3498 # ifdef UNIX
> 3499 # ifdef HAVE_FCHOWN
> 3500 ignored = fchown(fd, st_old.st_uid, st_old.st_gid);
> 3501 # endif
> 3502 if (mch_stat((char *)IObuff, &st) < 0
> 3503 || st.st_uid != st_old.st_uid
> 3504 || st.st_gid != st_old.st_gid
> 3505 || (long)st.st_mode != perm)
> 3506 backup_copy = TRUE;
> 3507 # endif
> 3508 /* Close the file before removing it, on MS-Windows
> we
> 3509 * can't delete an open file. */
> 3510 close(fd);
> 3511 mch_remove(IObuff);
> 3512 }
>
> If mch_open (line 3492) returns a file descriptor, then we get into
> the following else which always calls mch_remove on the file (line
> 3511). So, Vim is removing the file but your filesystem isn't
> properly handling that.
Thanks for the explanation. It's just plain old NTFS, so I guess
there's something wrong in my system.
Arve
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