Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | 2.1.46 weird creat problem | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 1997 14:47:34 -0600 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> |
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When I went from 2.1.42 to 2.1.46, MH (the one true mail system) stopped working for me. It seems that I am no longer able to "inc" my mail out of the mail spool, which is a (NFS-mounted) Solaris-served, t-bit mail directory. Strace shows the following happening:
[...] stat("/var/spool/mail/,LCK.a01595", 0xbfffdea8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) unlink("/var/spool/mail/,LCK.a01595") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) creat("/var/spool/mail/,LCK.a01595", 0400) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) [...]
The interesting thing is that, after this sequence of events, the funky LCK file it wants to create does, in fact exist. Since the ENOENT errors above make it clear that the did not exist before, I conclude that the creat() worked, but then returned an incorrect error code.
Anybody else seen anything like this? Like I said, 2.1.42 didn't do this to me...
Thanks, jon
Jonathan Corbet National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Technology Division corbet@atd.ucar.edu http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rdp/jmc.html
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