Problem with stat on cifs.

[nil_fergi]

Hi,

i have Ubuntu10.10 (kernel-2.6.35-22-generic) installed.

struct stat StatBuff;

Example1:
iRet = stat("/mnt/win/data", &Statuff);
if (-1 == iRet)
{
perror("statfail");
}

Example2:
pDir = opendir("/mnt/win/data");
if (NULL != pDir)
{
if ((dp = readdir(pDir)) != NULL)
{
iRet = stat(dp->d_name, &StatBuff);
if (-1 == iRet)
{
perror("statfail");
}
}
}

I have mounted a windows share folder on /mnt. When i gave any directory within /mnt/ to stat function it fails with errorno 75. perror shows "Value too large for defined data type".

Example 1 is fail but Example 2 works fine.
Can any one tell me meanning of error or why Example 1 gets fail here?

Please help me. Its urgent.

[Rubberman]

I assume in Example1 that you really meant &StatBuff and not &Statuff? Why the call would fail in the first example, but not the second I have to assume it is because you have not opened the connection to the remote directory first. Whether this is a bug or not is a good question. So, I would recommend in your second example to try using the string literal "/mnt/win/data" in your call to stat() instead of dp->d_name, as an experiment to see if it is in the use of the literal const char* vs the member variable of the dirent structure filled in by readdir(). Let us know what you find.

[nil_fergi]

using option "noserverino, nounix" while mount solved the problem.