At 10:32 AM +0100 3/23/00, Martin Vorlaender wrote:
> > The header dump on our system disk reveals:
>>
>> Identification area
> > File name: SYSCOMMON.DIR;1
>>
>
>
>The backlink fault would also cause batch jobs (which are identified
>by FID) to fail whose COM files are somewhere in SYS$COMMON: when
>they try to use f$environment("procedure"). Example: Any standard
>TCPware installation trying to STARTNET in batch.
>Been there, earned that t-shirt.
>
>So the only solution really is "fix your disk".
Thanks Martin (and Carl too) for the help with this. The machine in question is not
on a cluster and has probably been in its current state for a long time (perhaps since
a 7.0 upgrade a couple of years ago) without this issue causing any problems. I'll
try to put it on someone's list to take care of, though.
Are there other backlink problems that Perl can or should work around when it gets a
returned filespec from lib$fid_to_name?
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Craig A. Berry
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