[linux-cifs-client] Re: CIFS improvements/wider testing needed

[VALETTE Eric RD-MAPS-REN]

Steve French wrote:
> VALETTE Eric RD-MAPS-REN wrote:
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>>Steve French wrote:
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>>>VALETTE Eric RD-MAPS-REN wrote:
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>>>>Steve French wrote:
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>>>>>Eric,
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>>>>Well I would be surprised the "cat >> titi" command does any of this
>>>>byte range lock. If the "create and later rewrite the same file"
>>>>sequence fails, with a simple cat command (cat > titi ... ^D; cat >>
>>>>titi), how can it works with complicated applications?
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>>>Make sure that you let me know if your cat example works when mounted
>>>with the relatively new "noperm" mount option on the client.   At least
>>>then we will know whether we are looking at a problem with access
>>>control on the server (ntfs acls) or client (unix mode bits and the
>>>.permission entry point)
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>>Works with the "noperm" mount option.
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>>--eric
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> Could you run "stat titi" and/or "ls -l titi" between the
>     "cat > titi"
> and the
>     "cat >> titi"

cat > toto
toto
8 r-ptxp-ceva6380:/network/home/test3->ls -l toto
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2005-11-22 17:50 toto
9 r-ptxp-ceva6380:/network/home/test3->cat >>titi
tata
10 r-ptxp-ceva6380:/network/home/test3->ls -l toto
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2005-11-22 17:50 toto

OK, I'm not root.root but why does my identity seem to change between
the file creation and the file rewrite?

-- eric