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Which Ontap version do you run on the filer ? Axel Luttgens wrote: > Le 6 juil. 09 à 09:47, Ralf Becker a écrit : > >> [...] >> >> Jul 6 08:14:32 trevi mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(beckerr): >> fchown(/u/f0/rzuser/beckerr/Mail/.subscriptions.lock, -1, -1) >> failed: Invalid argument >> >> [...] >> >> The error just appears on NFS mounted shared and I'm not sure if >> AIX or netapp is the cause. > > According to the posix specification, fchown may return EINVAL when the > owner or group ID is not a value supported by the implementation, or > when the fildes argument refers to a pipe or socket or an fattach()-ed > STREAM and the implementation disallows execution of fchown() on a pipe. > > Wouldn't it be worth to check what kind of entity gets created under > your environment? > I ask because I wouldn't exclude without further investigations the > possibility of encountering other side effects wrt files throughout the > code. > > >> So to determine the real problem is >> not easy, but to fix it is: >> >> While uid and gid are both -1 the call could be suppressed, because >> nothing is really changed: >> >> --- ./lib/file-dotlock.c.org 2009-07-06 09:25:14.000000000 +0200 >> +++ ./lib/file-dotlock.c 2009-07-06 09:24:48.000000000 +0200 >> @@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ >> fd = file_dotlock_open(set, path, flags, &dotlock); >> umask(old_mask); >> >> - if (fd != -1) { >> + if (fd != -1 && (uid != -1 || gid != -1)) { >> if (fchown(fd, uid, gid) < 0) { >> if (errno == EPERM && uid == (uid_t)-1) { >> i_error("%s", eperm_error_get_chgrp("fchown", > > Alternatively, perhaps could you write a small c program so as to test a > fchown(fd,-1,-1) operation on a "regular" file as see whether it fails > or not. > > HTH, > Axel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpR5j0ACgkQ6f7UMO5oSsURHACfU1FMVB+sLctoB991QkN2RgvY 924AoJ2je0oDa9Z9zCmb4TFsOnfQBz6p =4bt3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----