[Samba] Wrong results in dir listing with wildcard

Gaiseric Vandal gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com
Mon Jul 12 17:09:36 MDT 2010


What does "dir /x" show?  The "/x" option should give you the 8.3 version of
the name.  That may be being matched by the wildcard.



-----Original Message-----
From: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org]
On Behalf Of Jeffrey McLellan
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 8:25 PM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Wrong results in dir listing with wildcard

Guy Rouillier <guyr-ml1 <at> burntmail.com> writes:

> I get the following 
> results from issuing directory listings with a wildcard:
> 
> N:\temp>dir ac*
>   Volume in drive N is data
>   Volume Serial Number is 0160-027E
> 
>   Directory of N:\temp
> 
> 06/10/2010  03:33 PM                 6 authenejbcp.bat
> 06/10/2010  03:33 PM                 6 ActivePython-2.6.5.12-win32-x86.msi
> 06/10/2010  03:33 PM                 6 
> ActiveTcl8.6.0.0b2.291226-win32-ix86-threaded.exe
> 06/10/2010  03:33 PM                 6 
> ActivePerl-5.10.1.1007-MSWin32-x86-291969.msi
>                 4 File(s)             24 bytes
>                 0 Dir(s)  533,019,426,816 bytes free
> 
> N:\temp>dir au*
>   Volume in drive N is data
>   Volume Serial Number is 0160-027E
> 
>   Directory of N:\temp
> 
> 06/10/2010  03:33 PM                 6 authenejbcp.bat
> 06/10/2010  03:33 PM                 6 authencp.bat
> 06/10/2010  03:33 PM                 6 authenclientcp.bat
>                 3 File(s)             18 bytes
>                 0 Dir(s)  533,019,484,160 bytes free
> 
> Notice that authenejbcp.bat is included in both listings.  If someone 
> else can confirm they are seeing the same thing, I'll file a bug report. 
>   Thanks.
> 

For what it's worth, this behavior is not limited to Samba servers. I have
the 
exact same problem using standard Microsoft servers.  Dir EC05*.* might
return a 
file named EC11*.* which is also visible if you Dir EC11*.*.  

The main difference is that my problem doesn't seem to be reproducible like 
yours.  During the course of a month we generate several thousand of these
files 
which are processed then archived and deleted. The names are all unique, 
containing date/time stamps.  In the course of a month maybe 10 of these
files 
will be affected as you describe.  We have modified our code to monitor for
this 
situation and give warnings.




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