Subject: Re: [Fwd: RE: rsync: readdir(.): Bad file descriptor (9)]
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/28/2006 15:57:38
In article <44F272C8.20607@truist.com>,
Nathan Arthur  <truist@truist.com> wrote:
>I'm using rsnapshot (from pkgsrc) to do rsync backups (to a netbsd 
>machine) of files on a Windows XP box, mounted on the netbsd machine via 
>smbfs.  When I first started doing this, I kept getting "Bad file 
>descriptor" errors for certain directories, and eventually tracked down 
>this: 
>http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2005-November/043823.html.  
>I contacted the person who posted that message (as shown below) and they 
>replied with a patch to smbfs_smb.c that fixes the problem, and a link 
>to: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/78953 which 
>describes the problem (and the fix) in detail. 
>
>I've applied the patch to my machine and it fixes my problem.  My 
>question is: how do I get this patch integrated into NetBSD? 
>
>Thanks,
>
>Nathan

Usually you send-pr... But I committed it for you.

christos