[199] in World Wide Web
the bug is dead
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bert@MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 17 02:43:48 1994
From: bert@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 94 02:43:33 EST
To: webmaster@MIT.EDU, www@MIT.EDU
Cc: sorokin@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[144] in Webmaster"
I fixed two bugs in Plexus stuff today. (At least I hope.)
One of them consisted of
parse error in file (eval) at line 1, next 2 tokens "& 0170000"
error message getting appended to directory listing if the last
directory entry was a non-world-readable directory.
The problem was that stat() returns undefined values for unreadable
AFS directories, which caused S_ISDIR from sys/stat.ph to fail
miserably and leave the error message mentioned above in $@. If the
last directory entry leaves $@ full, the server error-trapping
mechanism goes wild. Yay.
Jessie ran into the problem and then the problem vanished without
a trace, but it still helped me figure out what was going on.
The second bug was, the AFS gateway was refusing to deal if given the
path to a symlink. This one was my fault. I fixed it.
--bert
