[Box Backup] Bug fix - don't die on lstat failure

[Joe Krahn]

Ben Summers wrote:
> On 13 Dec 2004, at 18:12, Joe Krahn wrote:
> 
>> I found why I had problems getting my home directory backed up.
>> If bbackupd get a bad result of lstat(), it aborts.
>>
>> In my case, the problem is actually from having a DVD .ISO file.
>> Files greater than 4GB in size fail with stat; they need stat64.
>> So, stat64() support is worth adding.
>>
>> But, it should also not abort the whole backup run due to one bad stat 
>> call. It's better to just skip the item for which fstat failed by 
>> chaning BackupClientDirectoryRecord.cpp from:
> 
> 
> Isn't enabling linux LFS supposed to make it call that function instead 
> of lstat itself?
> 
> Failures reading a file don't cause the backup to abort, but it does 
> assume (at the moment) that getting file information is going to work.
> 
> I'll make it more tolerant.
> 
> Ben
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Yes, I think you can just define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and automatically 
get 64-bit versions of stat structs/functions. But, I don't see this in 
the boxbackup sources.

Joe