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Article #9585"stat" system call problem
From: Hsuan Chang
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1988 05:34
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1988 05:34
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It escaped me last when I had a glance at the mention of the "fstat" problem a while back on SunSpots. Now, I am having this terrible problem with "stat", which is supposed to be bullet-proof. I hope my problem is related. It goes like this: stat(file, &buf) returns a buffer via buf which has all the info concerning file. buf.st_size is said to have the size of the file in bytes. It worked fine until lately when I recompiled my program. It started to return 1 to me no matter what the size of the file is! To make the problem even more annoying, it DID return a few times the correct size! No, I am not kidding! (frequency of getting it right: <1%) I checked the latest version of TFM (dated: Last Change: 22 Nov '87 Release 4.0), and failed to find any trace of changes to the structure of the buffer or to the specification of the function. Well, does any one of you folk have the same ugly experience? Hsuan Chang hsc@vuse.vanderbilt.edu Image Processing Lab Computer Science Dept Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tn 37235 (615) 322-[2949|0962]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: hsc@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Hsuan Chang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: "stat" system call problem Message-ID: <8812010416.AA29313@ip0.> Date: 13 Dec 88 05:34:22 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 26 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 88 22:16:38 CST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 49, message 1 of 18