[Box Backup] bbackupquery strange issue

[Ben Summers]

On 10 May 2006, at 13:31, Chris Wilson wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> I installed the client from the parcel that was compiled on the  
>> server
>> box with CentOS 4.3.
>
> That's probably the problem. There are two different ways to get  
> information about a file or directory. Box Backup picks one  
> depending on whether it works or not on the machine where it was  
> compiled. That way might or might not work on another machine. I  
> guess that it does work on CentOS, and not on Fedora, which caused  
> your CentOS build to fail on Fedora.
>
> Ben, perhaps if we detect HAVE_VALID_DIRENT_D_TYPE and compile with  
> it enabled, then we should add a check that d_type is correct for  
> the "." and ".." directories, and maybe for a known file as well?

Yes if it's going to break silently otherwise. Tracking Linux as a  
target is a nightmare.


> Or else just use stat() on all platforms?

Doesn't sound the nicest plan ever.

Ben