On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 07:24:14AM -0700, Leon Vanderploeg wrote: >Greetings, > >I am having problems with intermittent failures of the lstat() inside a C >program on several servers running Windows Server 2008R2. The program >recursively searches directories and uses lstat() to gather information on >each file. The files that fail most often end in .bak, but not always. >Since the lstat() command does not return detailed failure information, I >can't identify what is causing the failure. Any suggestions on what might >be causing the failures or how to gather information on what is causing the >failure?
lstat may not return detailed error information (what UNIX program does?) but it does return *some*. You haven't provided enough information to help you. If you can boil the problem down to a simple test case that is always helpful but, barring that, at the very least, what errno is being reported? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
