No response yet - can anyone theorize on what would make mc switch from the current working directory to the / directory? I see the same thing happens if I chmod my current directory perms to zero.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:01:34AM -0400, Ed Ravin wrote: > I'm having trouble using mc in a NetBSD 3.0 environment. Everything > works normally except when I tell mc to look at directories on a particular > NFS server. That server is a Solaris 10 box using ZFS. When I start mc > while cd'd to a directory on that server, when mc comes up it shows the > contents of / instead. Running a shell command shows that mc has chdir'd > to /. > > My first guess as to the cause of the problem was that ZFS reports > a different value than "normal" in st_size when you stat a directory > entry. Instead of a bytecount which you divide by some constant (usually > 24) to get the number of items in the directory, ZFS reports the number > of entries in the directly in st_size. This confuses older implementations > of scandir(), and especially programs that implement their own versions > of directory browsers that try to figure out how many items are in a > directory from st_size. > > But I wasn't able to verify if that guess was correct - mc does not > seem to use scandir and I didn't see any obvious misuse of st_size. > > Any idea what's going on here? Is this problem related to st_size, > or is there something else about ZFS that mc doesn't like? > > -- Ed > _______________________________________________ > Mc-devel mailing list > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel > -- Ed Ravin | "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as | well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the eravin@ | streets, and to steal bread." panix.com | --Anatole France, Le Lys Rouge [1894] _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel