Re: Bug in new vfat code

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Tue, 23 Feb 1999 01:24:50 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Trever Adams wrote:

> Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Trever Adams wrote:
> >
> > > Case in point: Bash with tab autocomplete. It works on ext2 file
> > > systems still but has stopped working on any form of msdos partitions
> > > that I have (vfat and fat32).
> > >
> >
> > ... which didn't happen yet. I have the code in question, but I didn't
> > submit it yet and AFAICS nobody else did.
>
>
> Hmm, I thought I saw those changes in 2.2.1... Maybe I was mistaken. I
> believe I am up to date with eerything. I will check one more time. I
> do not know what it would be then because it is just recently (2.2.x
> maybe in pre but not in 2.1.x) that bash stopped working properly.

There were no changes in fs/fat/*, fs/vfat/* and fs/msdos/* since
2.2.0. In 2.2.0 there was a change in vfat/namei.c, but it was local to
rename (fixed a silly braino). When did the problems begin?

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