Displaying 2 results from an estimated 2 matches for "file_exists_trunc".
2003 Dec 16
0
Quicken backup and Samba 2.2.8a on FreeBSD
...up an
error box complaining about lack of write access. I've spent some time in
google and found an intereting commment in Samba's open.c function, "This
little piece of insanity is inspired by the fact that an NT client can open
a file for O_RDONLY, but set the create disposition to
FILE_EXISTS_TRUNCATE. If the client *can* write to the file, then it
expects to truncate the file, even though it is opening for readonly.
Quicken uses this stupid trick in backup file creation..."
I looked in the log file for the error string corresponding to the "little
bit of insanity". The longi...
2003 Dec 20
0
Quicken backup and Samba 3.0.0 on FreeBSD
...up an
error box complaining about lack of write access. I've spent some time in
google and found an intereting commment in Samba's open.c function, "This
little piece of insanity is inspired by the fact that an NT client can open
a file for O_RDONLY, but set the create disposition to
FILE_EXISTS_TRUNCATE. If the client *can* write to the file, then it
expects to truncate the file, even though it is opening for readonly.
Quicken uses this stupid trick in backup file creation..."
I looked in the log file for the error string corresponding to the "little
bit of insanity". The longi...