[Samba] last file missing from wildcard searches (3.0.13)

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Mar 31 18:29:29 GMT 2005


On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 01:20:30PM +0100, Mac wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 	We're at the preliminary stages of investigating this, but I
> can't find any references to it on a Google etc.
> 
> 
> Anyway.  We've just moved from 3.0.6 to 3.0.13 and users report a file
> being missing.
> 
> 
> On investigation it turns out that (as far as we could tell in a 5
> minute minor panic) the last file in a directory is not included in
> a wildcard search.  (last file is defined by 'ls -f').
> 
> 
> Naming the file explicitly is not affected, but any wildcard (such as
> 'ls' or 'ls *B' fails to find the file.
> 
> This behaviour is consistent with both  Win XP SP1  and  smbclient
> 
> We're continuing to investigate, and when we've got the minimal
> reproducible test cvase, we'll file a bugzilla report, but I just wanted
> to flag this up here and now.
> 
> We've rolled back to 3.0.6 for now.
> 
> IRIX 6.5.5, Samba 3.0.6 with quotas support compiled in.  All compiled
> from source.

Can you get me a ethereal capture trace, and also a debug level 10 from
the smbd please ? This code did change for 3.0.13 to fix a bug with Win9x,
but it was tested extensively before release (ie. I can't reproduce this bug).

Thanks,

	Jeremy.


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