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Date: | Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:11:17 +0200 (IST) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
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To: | Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> |
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Subject: | Re: ls weirdness on root drive |
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Charles Sandmann wrote: > We already knew that searches with the VOL bit didn't work under Win2K/XP > on the root of a volume, and it now seems that other things may not work > either in some rare situtations. I have tried to reproduce the problem > in other directories without luck. > > I'll continue looking, but for now I have no recommendations. One (obviously drastic) possibility would be to reset the volume bit when lstat calls findfirst on W2K/XP. They lose the ability to see volume lables, but that's not a great loss, since volume labels are non-Posix, and `lstat' is a Posix function.
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