Date: Sat, 31 Jul 93 10:00:51 +0200
From: kuku AT acds DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Christoph Kukulies)
To: dmason AT plg DOT uwaterloo DOT ca, mrs AT netcom DOT com
Subject: Re: Novell is broken
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

mrs AT netcom DOT com (Morgan Schweers) wrote:
>Greetings,
>    Some of what you describe here isn't necessarily 'Novell' problems,
>and may be attributable to something else.
>
>On Jul 30, 10:53am, Dave Mason wrote:
>} Subject: Novell is broken
>} > Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1993 04:14:25 -0400
>} > From: John Williams <j DOT williams AT aston DOT ac DOT uk>
>} > 
>} > I am trying to run djppp/gcc on a Novell fileserver but it just hangs
>} > the system.  I have got the latest fixes of gas and binutl but cannot
>} > fix the problem. 
>} 
>} Novell is so broken it is amazing.  I *presume* are some semantics
>} documented somewhere, but I haven't seen them.
>} 
>} Example problems that I've seen:
>} 
>} 1) creating files on the network from one PC, and it not appearing
>}    elsewhere until you change directories, or logout, or something.
>
>    Believe it or not, this could be a problem from the PC's side.  If
>you can replicate the problem, try creating the file, then pressing ^C
>(from the DOS prompt), then checking to see if it's there.  It may be
>a problem of the directory gets loaded into a buffer, and it's not
>marked as 'modified' when the file is created.  This is a relatively
>common problem.

Is this behaviour controllable by a runtime function of, say, TC run time 
library? The problem I have presently may be related to a similar behaviour.
That the directory is not yet flushed and the fstat does illbehave for this
reason.

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--Chris
Christoph P. U. Kukulies
kuku AT acds DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
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