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Date:      Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:37:31 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Karl Denninger  <karl@Mcs.Net>
To:        michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock)
Cc:        karl@Mcs.Net, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: More on the disappearing directory problem
Message-ID:  <199610141537.KAA02831@Jupiter.Mcs.Net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.93.961014152721.8098A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> from "Michael Hancock" at Oct 14, 96 03:30:22 pm

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> 
> On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Karl Denninger wrote:
> 
> > Errno = 2, which is "ENOENT", or the directory DISAPPEARED!  (This is being
> > returned by the "getcwd" system call)
> > 
> > However, if you then do an "ls -la", you DO see the directory and its
> > contents.
> 
> Do you see the directory with plain ls?  There is a significant
> difference when you need to get attributes.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Mike Hancock

Yes, including the parent (..).

That's what really gets me -- finding this one so far as proved to be a
royal bitch.  Its the only remaining problem in the -current tree that
prevents us from rolling it as a production release.

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