mtools extfs script patch proposal

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Thu Nov 14 05:03:36 UTC 2002


Hello!

> I would just like to report a little bug in the extfs.

I cannot reproduce it.

> cd /#c

I get a message

Cannot chdir to "/#c"
No such file or directory (2)

> cd /#d

Cannot chdir to "/#d"
No such file or directory (2)

> here again the /#c contents is shown.

The contents of the panel doesn't change.

> cd /tmp/#d
> however works well

Cannot chdir to "/tmp/#d"
No such file or directory (2)

> One more suggestion: Will is be possible to include a symbolic links such 
> as c->a, d->a, e->a, f->a, g->a, h->a, i->a, etc. to the package? I might 
> be done via a post install script in case of RPM. Also the 
> apropriate extfs.ini entries would be cool.

The sad thing it that nobody here really understands VFS and has enough 
time to reseach your proposal.  Can you send a patch?  What are you trying 
to achieve?

> > While testing this change, I have discovered one more problem - long 
> > filenames with spaces were truncated.  I have fixed this bug as well.

Please don't quote parts irrelevant to your reply.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin




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