BSD & seekdir() - Bug 25 χρόνων!

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BSD & seekdir() - Bug 25 χρόνων!

Post by HdkiLLeR » Sun May 11, 2008 12:11 pm

The other day, I got an email from Edd, an OpenBSD user, claiming that Samba would crash when serving files off an MS-DOS filesystem. This was Samba built from sources and not the one from ports. Since I use myself Samba a lot and for a quite large user base, I got interested in the issue and started investigating it.

What I found out in the end is a surprise and was not expected: A bug that has been there in all BSDs for almost all the time, since the 4.2BSD times or for roughly 25 years...
Περισσότερα για το bug αλλά και για το workaround του (http://www.vnode.ch/fixing_seekdir)
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