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[Brian K. White]

On 8/4/2011 10:11 AM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> On 8/4/2011 9:48 AM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> [...]
>>> I should have said I was using Opendir() to read the directory list.
>>>
>>> This is on 5.6.10 as I have not upgraded my client's system to .11.
>>>
>>> However, I will try 2 reads and if blank, end.
>>
>> Made the change to have the program loop through the values qq (total
>> files in the directory)
>>
>> The program processed 774 records and not 1594 files.
>>
>> What I will do, is list, on screen, the first 20 or so files processed
>> to see if the is a pattern to what is missed.
> [...]
>
> The "pattern" will be "those that were not returned by opendir(), due to the
> bug in 5.6.10 which you are using, but which is fixed in 5.6.11":
>
>>>>> (All) #1151
>>>>>
>>>>>      On some platforms, it was possible for opendir() to return a list of
>>>>>      filenames of the correct length, but which contained some blank
>>>>>      entries instead of the names.
>

You are saying there is no known pattern to the bug? He can't work 
around it by avoiding using certain filenames or permissions or whatever?

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bkw