inconsistent caching - bug?

Christopher R. Hertel crh at nts.umn.edu
Mon Jun 24 14:08:03 GMT 2002


Simo:  I'm wondering if this could be related to the caching bug you
found in my code while we were at SambaXP.  I believe that you and
Jeremy fixed the latter bug for 2.2.5.

Chris -)-----

Terry Davis wrote:
> 
> Sorry, forgot version.
> 
> 2.2.4
> 
> Here is how it was configured:
> configure \
>         --with-automount \
>         --with-smbmount \
>         --with-pam \
>         --with-mmap \
>         --with-quotas \
>         --without-smbwrapper \
>         --with-libsmbclient \
>         --with-utmp \
>         --with-acl-support \
>         --with-profile \
>         --disable-static \
>         --with-ldapsam
> 
> On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 14:35, Terry Davis wrote:
> > I am seeing some inconsistencies on files that have very similar names.
> >
> > Here is my share:
> > [ftp]
> >         comment = FTP Directories
> >         path = /home
> >         browsable = yes
> >         writeable = no
> >         valid users = @csr, at system, at technical, at financial
> >         write list = @system
> >         force group = csr
> >         create mode = 0664
> >         directory mode = 0775
> >
> > I have a person in the csr group trying to open two files:
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 13301    csr        108681 Jun 20 12:37 File1.txt
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 13301    csr        170180 Jun 20 12:32 FILE1.TXT
> >
> > They are named exactly like that, I made no name changes.
> >
> > The sizes are different but the contents that are displayed to the user
> > are exactly the same.  I am wondering if samba is improperly showing the
> > user cached contents.  I did verify that if I rename one of the files,
> > the correct contents are displayed for both files.
> >
> > thank you!
> >
> > --
> > Terry Davis
> > http://approbation.org/
> --
> Terry Davis
> http://approbation.org/

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Christopher R. Hertel -)-----                   University of Minnesota
crh at nts.umn.edu              Networking and Telecommunications Services




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