Strange fstatat / stat behavour on directories causing tar "file changed as we read it" error
Larry Hall (Cygwin)
reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Tue Jan 11 17:55:00 GMT 2011
On 1/11/2011 4:54 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
<snip>
> I can not reproduce the effect, at least not on W7, but apparently it
> happens on some systems. So, given that the directory size is
> irrelevant for all practical purposes anyway, and given that there's no
> application which has problems with a directory size of 0, should Cygwin
> just always set st_size to 0 for directories? Independent of the
> underlying FS?
That sounds reasonable to me. It replicates what I see now anyway. ;-)
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Larry
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A: Yes.
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