Re: Problem with svn workdir over samba

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Alan Wood <alan.wood_at_clear.net.nz> wrote:
> In libsvn_subr/io.c around line1843 there is code to force a non-win32 client to
> rewind the directory after deleting an item when doing a recursive delete. For the
> same reasons that this is taken out for windows build, it should also not be there for
> samba file systems. Does anybody know why a unix system should require this
> rewind?? I can't see why in the readdir_r() docs that the apr routines seem to call.
> You could try removing this!

Okay, I'll see if I can apply a patch to remove the rewind (and just
act like a win32 client). Hopefully there won't be any side-effects.

> BTW, what version of Samba are you using? There are file/directory rename issues
> that also show up ( one fixed in Version 3.3.0pre2 ). Not sure if these effect unix-
> unix Samba shares.

This is with stable versions (3.0.28 and 3.2.4).

Thanks for your help!

Cheers,

-- 
Konstantin Ryabitsev
Montréal, Québec