Re: [bugs #9960] High 16 bits of st_nlink are sometimes corrupted

[Marco Gerards]

ams@kemisten.nu (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:

>    I wonder why nobody noticed it before.
>
> I did; and I did report it.

Where?  I must have missed it. :-/

> But right now I cannot reproduce it at all.

I can, easily.

>    rpctrace shows that ext2fs/libdiskfs is to be blamed, not glibc or
>    programs.
>
> Can you show us the rpctrace?  I really doubt that this is a
> ext2fs/diskfs issue since neither have had any funky things commited
> for a long time.

I have the feeling this is a glibc problem (as in this glibc linked to
ext2fs.static).  Did the "struct stat" change?  The size of nlink_t?

I can reproduce this using file_name lookup + io_stat, so it is in the
ext2fs server or libraries linked to it.

> What glibc version are you using by the way?  I'm using some semi-old
> CVS version (newer the Debian's, older then what is in the CVS tree).

I am using the newest glibc and Hurd packages.  Before I upgraded I
could not reproduce this problem.

ii  hurd           20040508-2     The GNU Hurd
ii  libc0.3        2.3.2.ds1-13.0 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone

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Marco