Corinna, thanks for the code! Sorry for the delay (had to do some work for my employer in the meantime ;-)
> Your strace shows that the inode number of the file changes in two > subsequent calls to stat. This is unfortunate, to say the least. Hm. > Can you give us more information about the remote file system? Is > that Clear Case or something like that? Could you please build and > run the below test application like this: > > $ gcc -o getvolinfo getvolinfo.c > $ ./getvolinfo //desdata2/universal > > and send the output to this list? Here's the output: ---- rootdir: \\desdata2\universal\ Volume Name : <universal> Serial Number : 3305459525 Max Filenamelength : 255 Filesystemname : <NTFS> Flags: FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH : TRUE FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES : TRUE FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK : TRUE FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS : TRUE FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION : FALSE FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION : FALSE FILE_NAMED_STREAMS : TRUE FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME : FALSE ---- Nothing unusual to me here. I'm all baffled. Thanks for all your support, Jan. -- 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/