Benjamin D wrote:
Hi!I've been using cygwin for a long time on my notebooks and desktops. I recently got a Core Duo for work. Most things seem to work fine, but lockfie didn't. I got the helpful error message: lockfile foo lockfile: Try praying, giving up on "foo" So, I downloaded the source and traced where the error was occuring. It's happening at a call to link(2): #include <unistd.h> int link(const char *oldpath, const char *newpath); Which is returning errno: ENOENT A directory component in oldpath or newpath does not exist or is a dangling symbolic link. lockfile creates a temporary file, then links that to the file you specify on the command line. When I was tracing through, I could see that the temporary file was created. That suggests to me that the path and permissions are OK. It just can't link. I ran it through strace, and see: 51 77145 [main] lockfile 4080 fhandler_base::set_flags: O_TEXT/O_BINARY set in flags 0x10000 50 77195 [main] lockfile 4080 fhandler_base::set_flags: filemode set to binary 49 77244 [main] lockfile 4080 fhandler_base::open: 0 = NtCreateFile (0x6B4, 20100, C:\cygwin\tmp\_w_.CsgnEB.bdodge-lt, io, NULL, 0, 7, 1, 4400, NULL, 0) 53 77297 [main] lockfile 4080 fhandler_base::open: 1 = fhandler_base::open (C:\cygwin\tmp\_w_.CsgnEB.bdodge-lt, 0x110000) 51 77348 [main] lockfile 4080 fhandler_base::open_fs: 1 = fhandler_disk_file::open (C:\cygwin\tmp\_w_.CsgnEB.bdodge-lt, 0x10000) 5656 83004 [main] lockfile 4080 fhandler_disk_file::link: CreateHardLinkA failed 85 83089 [main] lockfile 4080 seterrno_from_win_error: /netrel/src/cygwin-1.5.19-4/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc:786 windows error 3 57 83146 [main] lockfile 4080 geterrno_from_win_error: windows error 3 == errno 2 50 83196 [main] lockfile 4080 __set_errno: void seterrno_from_win_error(const char*, int, DWORD):310 val 2 51 83247 [main] lockfile 4080 fhandler_base::close: closing '/tmp/_w_.CsgnEB.bdodge-lt' handle 0x6B4 75 83322 [main] lockfile 4080 link: -1 = link (_w_.CsgnEB.bdodge-lt, foo) 50 83372 [main] lockfile 4080 lstat64: entering 49 83421 [main] lockfile 4080 normalize_posix_path: src _w_.CsgnEB.bdodge-lt 48 83469 [main] lockfile 4080 cwdstuff::get: posix /tmp So, I tried just linking a file: $ ls -il foo bar; touch foo && link foo bar && ls -il foo bar ls: foo: No such file or directory ls: bar: No such file or directory 2251799813741751 -rw------- 2 bdodge mkgroup-l-d 0 Jun 24 20:56 bar 2251799813741751 -rw------- 2 bdodge mkgroup-l-d 0 Jun 24 20:56 foo Works fine, so I try seeing what happens with strace: $ ls -il foo bar; touch foo && strace link foo bar > strace.out 2>&1 && ls -il foo bar ls: foo: No such file or directory ls: bar: No such file or directory ls: bar: No such file or directory 2814749767163063 -rw------- 1 bdodge mkgroup-l-d 0 Jun 24 20:58 foo It doesn't work when run under strace. strace.out is below. Any suggestions on how to make link work reliably on this system? I've tried using the revs of lockfile(procmail) & cygwin from my old laptop and the latest install.
Any chance the source of this problem is related to this: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00186.html> -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
