[linux-cifs-client] Re: POSIX Create/Mkdir and Create Action

Steve French smfrench at austin.rr.com
Fri Mar 23 03:22:59 GMT 2007


> Sorry got a little behind on my email. Just to let you know  
> everything discussed on this thread sounds ok to me.
>
>The Wiki describes the SMB_QUERY_FILE_UNIX_INFO2 info level, but not  
>the SMB_FIND_FILE_UNIX_INFO2 info level. I understand that they are  
>almost the same, but I would like to nail down the file name part of  
>the call.
>
>All the other FIND_FILE calls return both the file name length and  
>then the file name as part of the info level. It would be nice if we  
>did the same. Also we really should document this call so every one  
>will be on the same page.

Yes - agreed.  For James Peach's patch my only minor change (for
consistency with other levels) was to specify that the file name 
length does not include the null (and the file name MAY be followed
by pad e.g. windows often seems to follow with 4 bytes of null).

I added that to the wiki.



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