Re: [9fans] Annyoing modified by boyd

[Ingo Krabbe <ikrabbe.ask@gmail.com>]

> "FILE modified by boyd since last read" strikes me as more useful than most
> error messages I see these days. My only question is what particular weapon
> Boyd would have used to "modify" the file.

Hey Winston,

I agree that the message itself would be extremely useful if it would be reported correctly. But acutally when its just me who modifies a remote file with acme in a editing session, I get these modified by boyd warnings and I will get the same warning if someone else had modified the file, in the end this really useful message gets useless, as most times it is wrong and gets auto-ignored by the chair-to-keyboard-interface.

FYI: boyd is the unknown modifiying user of any file on cifs, who is a friend of bill and trog. I always think of boyd to be the younger brother of void.

Regards
Ingo Krabbe


> On 17 September 2014 23:18, Ingo Krabbe <ikrabbe.ask@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> using legacy bell-labs plan9 (I don't know the others), I often, that
>> converges to always, get "FILE modified by boyd since last read" when
>> editing a file on a cifs share with acme.
>>
>> The cifs main.c defines "boyd" as the "modifying user" (muid) in I2D and
>> V2D, which are from fs.stat.
>>
>> From /sys/src/cmd/acme/exec.c:/putfile/+14
>>
>>         if(d!=nil && runeeq(namer, nname, f->name, f->nname)){
>>                 /* f->mtime+1 because when talking over NFS it's often off
>> by a second */
>>                 if(f->dev!=d->dev || f->qidpath!=d->qid.path ||
>> f->mtime+1<d->mtime){
>>                         f->dev = d->dev;
>>                         f->qidpath = d->qid.path;
>>                         f->mtime = d->mtime;
>>                         if(f->unread)
>>                                 warning(nil, "%s not written; file already
>> exists\n", name);
>>                         else
>>                                 warning(nil, "%s modified%s%s since last
>> read\n", name, d->muid[0]?" by ":"", d->muid);
>>                         goto Rescue1;
>>                 }
>>         }
>>
>> Hmm, possibly this is another time quirk, like that one from NFS. Does
>> anyone know a good solution to that problem?
>>
>> Regards
>> ikrabbe
>>
>>
>>
>>