From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: fstat st_size on open files on Parallels filesystem is wrong
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 11:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151102112334.GC5319@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22071.12068.858109.210047@compute03.cs.columbia.edu>
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On Nov 2 04:38, Jonathan Lennox wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 21 2015, "Corinna Vinschen" wrote to "cygwin@cygwin.com" saying:
> > On Oct 8 12:16, Jonathan Lennox wrote:
> > > No such luck, despite two major version revisions of Parallels Desktop (I'm
> > > now on version 11.0.2) and moving to Windows 10 as the guest OS -- the bug
> > > perists, unchanged. So it looks like Cygwin will need to add a workaround
> > > for this filesystem to fix the problem.
> >
> > Ok, we could do that. Can you compile and run the testcase from
> > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg00523.html again? Does it
> > still show 0 vs. 12 bytes? Dumb extra test: Does the output change
> > if you reorder the calls, requesting FileStandardInformation first,
> > FileNetworkOpenInformation second?
>
> I re-ran the test, no change. Changing the order gives the same result --
> FileStandardInformation works, FileNetworkOpenInformation doesn't.
Ok, so it's not about some caching.
> > Just create a hardlink on that drive using native means:
> >
> > $ touch foo
> > $ cmd /c mklink /h bar foo
> >
> > Error at this point? No hardlinks. Otherwise:
>
> "You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation." Is that
> sufficient proof?
No.
> Unfortunately, when I do "Run As Administrator" on MinTTY, the Mac drives
> (/cygdrive/z and /cygdrive/y) don't show up. I don't know why that is. So I
> can't test hard links as administrator.
That's a security feature of UAC. You can change that in the registry.
As administrator:
regtool -d set /HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/System/EnableLinkedConnections 1
Then reboot.
> > $ ls -li foo bar
> >
> > Are the inode numbers identical? Congrats, hardlinks work. But given
> > the general FAT-iness of the getVolInfo output, I guess it doesn't
> > maintain hardlinks.
>
> However, when I create a hardlink on the underlying (Mac) file system, the
> inode numbers that Cygwin shows are not identical. So "no hardlinks" seems
> very likely.
Given the filesystem flags, Cygwin treats your FS as some kind of FAT
anyway, so this isn't convincing. I doubt they work anyway, but if you
really want to test it, use your orignal testcase and replace the
NtQueryInformationFile like this:
FILE_INTERNAL_INFORMATION fii;
status = NtQueryInformationFile (h, &io, &fii, sizeof fii,
FileInternalInformation);
if (!NT_SUCCESS (status))
fprintf (stderr, "NtQueryInformationFile: 0x%08x\n", status);
else
printf ("inode number %llu\n", fii.FileId.QuadPart);
Then call this application multiple times on some well known hardlinks
to the same file. If they have the same number, all the time, hardlinks
work.
I added support for this filesystem (called prlfs in mount output) and
without hardlink support for now. I uploaded a new developer snapshot
to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please give it a try.
Thanks,
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-02 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-21 18:27 lennox
2014-04-21 18:35 ` Andrey Repin
2014-04-21 18:46 ` lennox
2014-04-22 8:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-22 16:09 ` lennox
2014-04-22 20:57 ` lennox
2014-04-23 8:41 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-23 16:47 ` lennox
2014-04-23 17:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-10-08 16:16 ` Jonathan Lennox
2015-10-21 11:07 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-02 9:38 ` Jonathan Lennox
2015-11-02 11:23 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2015-11-02 13:08 ` Jonathan Lennox
2015-11-02 14:06 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-02 22:05 ` Jonathan Lennox
2015-11-03 12:19 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-04 6:35 ` Jonathan Lennox
2015-11-04 9:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-02 12:52 ` cyg Simple
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