[Samba] negative len requested??

[Jeremy Allison]

On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 05:37:29PM +0100, Robert Krauss wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> happy ney year!
> 
> I have a lot of these messages with different filenames and dirs in my smbd.log:
> 
> [2006/01/01 17:23:49, 0] smbd/vfs.c:vfs_allocate_file_space(375)
>   vfs_allocate_file_space: dir1/dir2/file.zip negative len requested.
> 
> when I ls -la in this dir I get:
> -rwxrw----    1 ab       everyone 22931487 Sep 10  2003 file.zip
> 
> What does it mean and do I have a problem here?

Can you send in a debug level 10 log once you've worked out what
application causes this problem please ? That would be very
helpful. What version of Samba is this ?

Thanks,

	Jeremy.