Bug report (12=17020 TC029) SAMBA 2.2.8 release 20040908 -
intermittent content loss
BG - Ben Armstrong
BArmstrong at dymaxion.ca
Fri Sep 24 13:45:33 GMT 2004
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 10:40 -0300, BG - Ben Armstrong wrote:
> > I am still trying to get familiar with this code, but I am finding
> > references to special handling if SAMBA detects that it is a VMS text file.
> >
> > Any VMS file that is not a stream or a fixed record size file may get
> > corrupted by an out-of-order transfer through SAMBA as the seek()
> > function will not go to the correct place on a write.
>
> OK, so far this is consistent with our test results. We'll let you know
> if we discover corruption in other file types, e.g. Stream or Stream-LF
> files.
Oops, I misread that as "seek() ... on a read", but you said "on a
write". Since we're seeing the corruption before any output is written,
your observations are *not* consistent with our test results. So it
remains a puzzle.
Ben
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