Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2003/01/09/11:32:38
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:58:27PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:15:16PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> A consequence of this hard nosed approach is that ls -l may not show
>> all files. To avoid that, stat could return uid = gid = -1 and modes = 0.
>>
>> Which is best in this case: conformance to posix or user friendliness?
>
>IMHO user friendliness. I've checked in a patch. When calling ls -l
>on such a file or dir, the output looks like this now:
>
> ---------- 1 65535 65535 48452 Jan 7 12:17 foo
> d--------- 2 65535 65535 0 Jan 9 12:09 foodir
>
>
>However, coincidentally I found another problem while testing that change.
>When a directory is unreadable for an account, the link count of that
>directory is set to 0 by the call to num_entries().
>
>That should be 2, shouldn't it?
>
>There's the comment in fhandler_disk_file::fstat_helper() which is
>fairly old AFAIR:
>
> /* Unfortunately the count of 2 confuses `find (1)' command. So
> let's try it with `1' as link count. */
>
>But this is only valid for remote dirs so it should be safe to return 2
>from num_entries.
>
>Chris?
Isn't that your comment, Corinna?
If you want to set it to 2, that's fine with me.
cgf
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