Re: [rdiff-backup-users] os error 22 detecting file system properties on cygwin

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> "David Kempe" <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:01:33 +1100

> Hi I am attempting to do a restore on a cygwin rdiff-backup install.
> I am getting the fs_ablities.py failing on creating a folder.  I
> assume the foo file is a test of some sort, I appears to fail with
> OS error 22 instead of just disabling that part of the test.  Is
> there some sort of patch we can try to disable this testing?  the
> testing is very useful, but needs this tweak for it to restore on
> windows.

Hi, hopefully we can just fix the bugs in the testing, not disable
it.  The following patch may fix two of your problems:

--- fs_abilities.py.old 2004-01-27 18:12:56.000000000 -0800
+++ fs_abilities.py     2004-01-27 18:14:28.000000000 -0800
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
                        tmp_rp.chown(uid+1, gid+1) # just choose random uid/gid
                        tmp_rp.chown(0, 0)
                except (IOError, OSError), exc:
-                       if exc[0] == errno.EPERM:
+                       if exc[0] in (errno.EPERM, errno.EINVAL):
                                log.Log("Warning: ownership cannot be changed 
on filesystem "
                                                "at %s" % (self.root_rp.path,), 
3)
                                self.ownership = 0
@@ -202,7 +202,8 @@
                hl_source.touch()
                try:
                        hl_dest.hardlink(hl_source.path)
-                       assert hl_source.getinode() == hl_dest.getinode()
+                       if hl_source.getinode() != hl_dest.getinode():
+                               raise IOError(errno.EOPNOTSUP, "Hard links 
don't compare")
                except (IOError, OSError), exc:
                        if exc[0] in (errno.EOPNOTSUPP, errno.EPERM):
                                log.Log("Warning: hard linking not supported by 
filesystem "


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Ben Escoto