We are seeing timed event problems with chdir that suggest event ordering and chdir issues in Samba 3.5.15 and possibly other versions of Samba

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 01:45:57PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 09:23:41AM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Richard Sharpe
> > <realrichardsharpe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> > >> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 08:16:04PM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > >>> Ok, I'll let Jeremy take care of it then.
> > >>>
> > >>> Sorry for the noise,
> > >>
> > >> Actually, I was waiting for Richard to test your patch,
> > >> that has the ChDirs() in it that might fix his problem.
> > >>
> > >> So it wasn't noise :-).
> > >
> > > I have a patch for 3.5.15 that will be tested soon.
> > 
> > The attached patch for 3.5.15 seems to do the trick, although it might
> > need cleaning up some.
> 
> Ok Richard can you log a bug and we'll get these
> fixes into 3.5.next and 3.6.next.

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8998

I'll upload Volker and your patches for review.

Cheers,

Jeremy.