Strange fstatat / stat behavour on directories causing tar "file changed as we read it" error

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 1/7/2011 9:39 PM, Steven Hartland wrote:

<snip>

> Here it takes about 2 - 5mins for what ever is causing the 0 size after a
> find to start to happen. Prior to that after the find all dirs show 8192 for
> size in an ls.

Ah, that's interesting.  I see no such time-lag here.

$ ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 lhall None 0 2011-01-07 22:06 testdir

$ find testdir >/dev/null

$ ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 lhall None 0 2011-01-07 22:06 testdir

But of course I'm working in an empty directory.  I'm also going to guess
that you're mounting your directory with the 'noacl' option.  If that's true,
you might try removing that option to see if it makes any difference.

-- 
Larry

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