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On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:49:53AM -0700, I wrote: > After switching from 1.5.9 to the 20040416 snapsnot, mutt > starts complaining "Could not create temporary file!" when > trying to view a message. The problem seems to be in the > code checking if a created temp file is a symlink: > > > static int compare_stat (struct stat *osb, struct stat *nsb) > > { > > if (osb->st_dev != nsb->st_dev || osb->st_ino != nsb->st_ino || > > osb->st_rdev != nsb->st_rdev) > > { > > return -1; > > } > > > > return 0; > > } > > called from here: > > > int safe_open (const char *path, int flags) > > { > > struct stat osb, nsb; > > int fd, ls, fs; > > > > if ((fd = open (path, flags, 0600)) < 0) { > > printf("open failed!\n"); > > return fd; > > } > > > > /* make sure the file is not symlink */ > > if ((ls=lstat (path, &osb)) < 0 || (fs=fstat (fd, &nsb)) < 0 || > > compare_stat(&osb, &nsb) == -1) > > because the inode numbers no longer seem to match. Commenting out the > return -1; works as a workaround. > > After doing so, and building my own mutt I am sporadically getting > "Couldn't lock " mailbox-name errors from mbox_lock_mailbox failing. The code fragments above are from mutt's lib.c. cygcheck output attached.
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