"getwd" error with 19.21 and nfs served disks.

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3 total messages Started by Mark London Tue, 13 Dec 1994 15:21

#379

Author: Mark London
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 15:21

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On my SGI Indy running unix, when my current directory is an nsf served disk,
emacs 19.21 fails to start and gives the following error:

macon 40# emacs
emacs: `getwd' failed: getwd: can't stat ..

Is this problem fixed in a later version?  If so, is there somewhere that I
can FTP the newer binary?  Thanks.

Mark London
MRL@PFC.MIT.EDU

Re: "getwd" error with 19.21 and nfs served disks.

#380

Author: Dave Schweisguth
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 21:08

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Mark London (mrl@pfc.mit.edu) wrote:
> On my SGI Indy running unix, when my current directory is an nsf served disk,
> emacs 19.21 fails to start and gives the following error:
>
> macon 40# emacs
> emacs: `getwd' failed: getwd: can't stat ..

emacs 19.28 doesn't do that in our NFS-mounted directories. (I'm using it
now.) There are several places where you can find a binary listed in the
SGI apps FAQ, at viz.tamu.edu:/pub/sgi/faq/apps.

Cheers,

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Re: "getwd" error with 19.21 and nfs served disks.

#378

Author: Thomas Sippel - Dau
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 10:05

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In article <13DEC94.15213529@pfc.mit.edu>, mrl@pfc.mit.edu (Mark London) writes:
- On my SGI Indy running unix, when my current directory is an nsf served disk,
- emacs 19.21 fails to start and gives the following error:
- 
- macon 40# emacs
- emacs: `getwd' failed: getwd: can't stat ..
- 
- Is this problem fixed in a later version?  If so, is there somewhere that I
- can FTP the newer binary?  Thanks.

This usually happens if the the permissions on the directory underlying a
mountpoint are more restrictive than those in the mountpoint (i.e. the file
system directory root) itself.

Unmount the file system and check that the directory (on the client) does
not have more restrictive permissions than the exported directory.

                                        Thomas
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