Re: sorry guys... slow on uptake today :)

[James Mckenzie]

Misha Koshelev <misha680(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> So I've been working on bug 13891, but got sidetracked by what I thought
> was a race condition as dlls/shell32/tests/shlexec.c was hanging.
>
> Spent several hours tracing it to line 464 in dlls/ntdll/directory.c
>
> if (stat( entry->mnt_dir, &st ) == -1) continue;
>
> (read from /etc/mtab)
>
> Turned out it was my curlftpfs file system, which tends to disconnect
> randomly and not unmount (doh!).
>
> Anyway I hope to have perhaps some tests for this bug before I leave to
> Russia (on Sat morning), but unfortunately I might not be able to get
> this bug fixed until post-code freeze. Sorry :(

If the fix is large and ugly, it will not be looked at until after the code freeze is lifted anyway.

Have a safe travel.

James Mckenzie