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#3882 file writable broken

obsolete: 8.4.18
pending-fixed
8
2012-02-02
2007-12-17
No

The [file writable] command is broken on Windows XP with samba server mounts. Since bug 1193497 & 1344540 changes were put in place, [file writable] appears to always return false for files on samba mounts. Evidence suggests that it is also restricted to Linux systems as other (sun) samba servers seem to not exhibit this behavior. Now, it is easy to suggest that the problem lies with the Linux version of samba, however, Tcl is the *only* application that has this problem. There is *no* evidence that *any* other windows applications have write access problems with these samba servers.

I've been able to reproduce the problem using 8.4.14, and 8.5.0 rc3. The samba server I'm using is:

$ rpm -q samba
samba-3.0.10-1.4E.9

Running on:

$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
$ uname -a
Linux modport 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:32:02 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

My samba configuration is:

[global]
workgroup = mygroup
server string = Samba Server
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
cups options = raw
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
dns proxy = no
idmap uid = 16777216-33554431
idmap gid = 16777216-33554431
template shell = /bin/false
password server = None
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
winbind use default domain = no
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writeable = yes
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
printable = yes
[scratch]
path = /export/scratch
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes

I believe this to be a high priority bug. I suggest backing out the patch from 1344540 and starting over. I believe the logic in the patch is flawed in some fundamental way.

Discussion

  • Brian Griffin

    Brian Griffin - 2007-12-17

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    Originator: YES

    This appears to be the same bug reported here:

    [ 1613456 ] file readable lies with samba shared folder or file

    Also, engineers at both Mentor Graphics and Xilinx have done extensive testing and all fingers point to Tcl.

     
  • Donal K. Fellows

    • priority: 5 --> 8
     
  • Brian Griffin

    Brian Griffin - 2007-12-19

    Logged In: YES
    user_id=22949
    Originator: YES

    This appears to be the same bug reported here:

    [ 1613456 ] file readable lies with samba shared folder or file

    Also, engineers at both Mentor Graphics and Xilinx have done extensive testing and all fingers point to Tcl.

     
  • Brian Griffin

    Brian Griffin - 2007-12-19
    • priority: 8 --> 5
     
  • Donal K. Fellows

    • priority: 5 --> 8
     
  • Danny Zeng

    Danny Zeng - 2009-02-11

    Reproduced this issue with ActivateTcl 8.4.18.0 on a Windows XP machine.
    Z: is a mapped share from a samba 3.0.10 server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)

    in ActiveTcl tchsh84
    % info patchlevel
    8.4.18
    % cd z:
    % cd zeng
    % dir
    Volume in drive Z is saber
    Volume Serial Number is 0E36-0531

    Directory of Z:\zeng

    2009-02-11 13:21 <DIR> .
    2009-02-11 13:18 <DIR> ..
    2009-02-11 13:18 13 test2.txt
    2009-02-11 13:18 13 test.txt
    2 File(s) 26 bytes
    2 Dir(s) 38,612,762,624 bytes free
    % file writable test.txt
    0
    % cat test.txt >>test2.txt
    % dir
    Volume in drive Z is saber
    Volume Serial Number is 0E36-0531

    Directory of Z:\zeng

    2009-02-11 13:21 <DIR> .
    2009-02-11 13:18 <DIR> ..
    2009-02-11 13:34 26 test2.txt
    2009-02-11 13:18 13 test.txt
    2 File(s) 39 bytes

     
  • Danny Zeng

    Danny Zeng - 2009-02-11

    Reproduced this issue with ActivateTcl 8.5
    - tcl can write to a file but "file writable" reported false.

    % info patchlevel
    8.5.2
    % pwd
    Z:/zeng
    % file writable test.txt
    0
    % cat test.txt >>test2.txt
    % dir
    Volume in drive Z is saber
    Volume Serial Number is 0E36-0531

    Directory of Z:\zeng

    2009-02-11 13:21 <DIR> .
    2009-02-11 13:18 <DIR> ..
    2009-02-11 13:35 39 test2.txt
    2009-02-11 13:18 13 test.txt
    2 File(s) 52 bytes
    2 Dir(s) 38,612,762,624 bytes free

     
  • Danny Zeng

    Danny Zeng - 2009-02-11

    tcl 8.4 in Cygwin on the same machine does not have this issue.

    $ uname
    CYGWIN_NT-5.1

    zeng@zeng-d630 ~
    $ tclsh84
    % cd z:/zeng
    % file writable test2.txt
    1
    % file writable test.txt
    1

     
  • Danny Zeng

    Danny Zeng - 2009-02-11

    in comment above for ActiveTcl on XP, I should have checked the other file, same false report in both versions.

    % info patchlevel
    8.4.18
    % pwd
    Z:/zeng
    % file writable test2.txt
    0

    and

    % info patchlevel
    8.5.2
    % pwd
    Z:/zeng
    % file writable test2.txt
    0

     
  • Don Porter

    Don Porter - 2009-02-11
    • assigned_to: vincentdarley --> dgp
     
  • Don Porter

    Don Porter - 2009-02-11
    • labels: 310731 --> 37. File System
     
  • Don Porter

    Don Porter - 2009-02-11

    why was this in the Patches
    Tracker?

     
  • Donal K. Fellows

    • milestone: --> obsolete: 8.4.18
     
  • Donal K. Fellows

    (Note: I cannot test this at all; I don't have a Linux system at the moment *or* Samba at all.)

    These files, can they be actually written by Tcl? As in, can you [open] them for writing/appending? If so, the problem is in Tcl_FSAccess(); [file writable] is a thin layer over that API. Due to fundamental race conditions, it is strongly recommended that if you need to write a file, you should just [open] it and get on with it (using [catch] - or [try] in 8.6 - to handle failures) rather than doing [file writable] first to see if you might succeed.

    Note also (to anyone working on a fix) that doing Tcl_FSStat() and then looking at the permissions bits is not a workaround at all; it will fail utterly on systems with ACLs such as AFS. (I suspect that there may be a problem with either Linux or Samba's handling of the access() syscall in this case, but due to the race condition it is not something I consider to be a disaster.)

     
  • Brian Griffin

    Brian Griffin - 2009-02-15

    Yes, opening and writing to the file is ok, but it's not quite that simple. The application needs to know the access rights, long before there is any need to actually write to the file, in order to determine how to treat the file. Think about using vi or emacs on a read-only file. In our particular case, the file is more like a database and we need to warn the user that updates to the db will not be possible during the session. But this is just one use model. In another situation we display a file list along with access rights (like ls -l). The list can be hundreds of files. Opening each of these for write just to check write access is an unreasonable expectation.

    For now, we do open the file as an access check. In all the years operating with Tcl prior to the introduction of patch 1344540 we never experienced any race issues. Other, non-tcl, parts of our application rely on access() only with great success. Doing so puts the onus on MS Windows crt to deal correctly with acl's.

     
  • Donal K. Fellows

    The race condition stuff is only really a problem when multiple applications (or multiple users) are trying to update the file at once. That's not a situation that Win is very good at handling, but also Not Our Fault. And isn't the key trouble for you.

    Looking through NativeAccess() in tclWinFile.c, it seems that something must be wrong in second stage of the function, which is where we are trying to check the security access for the file. Though you could try using a debugger to see which branches in that function it takes; that would be very helpful to whoever ends up fixing this issue...

    (Goodness me! That code is nasty...)

     
  • Danny Zeng

    Danny Zeng - 2009-02-16

    gdb log sent to dkf and tcl-win mail list.

     
  • Donal K. Fellows

    Trace indicates that it is the call to AccessCheck (i.e. tclWinProcs->accessCheckProc) that is deciding that the check fails, but there are no untoward actual failures.

    According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa374815\(VS.85).aspx the desiredAccess parameter must not contain any generic access rights. We only use generic rights, so this could be a source of trouble... Apparently, we need to use MapGenericMask to convert.

     
  • Danny Zeng

    Danny Zeng - 2009-02-17

    Attaching the gdb log here.

    $ gdb tclsh85g.exe
    GNU gdb 5.2.1
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    welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
    Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
    There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
    This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-mingw32"...
    (gdb) dll-symbol tcl85g.dll
    (gdb) list NativeAccess
    1538
    1539 static int
    1540 NativeAccess(
    1541 const TCHAR *nativePath, /* Path of file to access, native encoding. */
    1542 int mode) /* Permission setting. */
    1543 {
    1544 DWORD attr;
    1545
    1546 attr = (*tclWinProcs->getFileAttributesProc)(nativePath);
    1547
    (gdb) break 1546
    (gdb) run
    #
    # break reached and I played around
    #
    (gdb) cont
    ...
    #
    # now in tclsh I changed to the network drive and
    # issued "file writable test.txt"
    # where text.txt is a file I created and modified a few times
    #
    #
    Breakpoint 1, NativeAccess (nativePath=0xae53e0 "t", mode=2)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/win/tclWinFile.c:1546
    1546 attr = (*tclWinProcs->getFileAttributesProc)(nativePath);
    (gdb) next
    1548 if (attr == 0xffffffff) {
    (gdb) print attr
    $4 = 32
    (gdb) info stack
    #0 NativeAccess (nativePath=0xae53e0 "t", mode=2)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/win/tclWinFile.c:1548
    #1 0x64e63b68 in TclpObjAccess (pathPtr=0xae2408, mode=2)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/win/tclWinFile.c:2385
    #2 0x64e12026 in Tcl_FSAccess (pathPtr=0xae2408, mode=2)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclIOUtil.c:2127
    #3 0x64d9ea6c in CheckAccess (interp=0x3d7f48, pathPtr=0xae2408, mode=2)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclCmdAH.c:1409
    #4 0x64d9e9f2 in Tcl_FileObjCmd (dummy=0x0, interp=0x3d7f48, objc=3,
    objv=0xa9d2b8)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclCmdAH.c:1370
    #5 0x64d92e5d in TclEvalObjvInternal (interp=0x3d7f48, objc=3, objv=0xa9d2b8,
    command=0xffffffff "P~o", length=-1, flags=0)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclBasic.c:3690
    #6 0x64de44a4 in TclExecuteByteCode (interp=0x3d7f48, codePtr=0xae5338)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclExecute.c:2340
    #7 0x64de2a3f in TclCompEvalObj (interp=0x3d7f48, objPtr=0xae2450,
    invoker=0x0, word=0)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclExecute.c:1474
    #8 0x64d949cc in TclEvalObjEx (interp=0x3d7f48, objPtr=0xae2450,
    flags=131072, invoker=0x0, word=0)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclBasic.c:5095
    #9 0x64d94623 in Tcl_EvalObjEx (interp=0x3d7f48, objPtr=0xae2450,
    flags=131072) at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclBasic.c:4903
    #10 0x64df9150 in Tcl_RecordAndEvalObj (interp=0x3d7f48, cmdPtr=0xae2450,
    flags=131072)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclHistory.c:161
    #11 0x64e19f35 in Tcl_Main (argc=-1, argv=0x3d269c,
    appInitProc=0x401378 <Tcl_AppInit>)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclMain.c:554
    #12 0x00401371 in main (argc=1, argv=0x3d2698)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/win/tclAppInit.c:102
    (gdb)
    (gdb) next
    1557 if ((mode & W_OK)
    (gdb)
    1571 if (mode & X_OK) {
    (gdb)
    1594 if ((mode != F_OK) && (tclWinProcs->getFileSecurityProc != NULL)) {
    (gdb)
    1595 SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR *sdPtr = NULL;
    (gdb)
    1598 HANDLE hToken = NULL;
    (gdb)
    1599 DWORD desiredAccess = 0, grantedAccess = 0;
    (gdb)
    1600 BOOL accessYesNo = FALSE;
    (gdb)
    1602 DWORD privSetSize = sizeof(PRIVILEGE_SET);
    (gdb)
    1609 size = 0;
    (gdb)
    1610 (*tclWinProcs->getFileSecurityProc)(nativePath,
    (gdb)
    0x77dfbcde in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
    (gdb)
    Single stepping until exit from function _libws2_32_a_iname,
    which has no line number information.
    0x7c9140fd in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
    (gdb)
    Single stepping until exit from function _libws2_32_a_iname,
    which has no line number information.
    NativeAccess (nativePath=0xae53e0 "t", mode=2)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/win/tclWinFile.c:1618
    1618 error = GetLastError();
    (gdb)
    1619 if (error != ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER) {
    (gdb) print error
    $5 = 122
    (gdb)
    (gdb) next
    1633 sdPtr = (SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR *) HeapAlloc(GetProcessHeap(), 0, size);
    (gdb)
    1635 if (sdPtr == NULL) {
    (gdb)
    1643 if (!(*tclWinProcs->getFileSecurityProc)(nativePath,
    (gdb)
    0x77dfbcde in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
    (gdb)
    Single stepping until exit from function _libws2_32_a_iname,
    which has no line number information.
    0x7c9140fd in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
    (gdb)
    Single stepping until exit from function _libws2_32_a_iname,
    which has no line number information.
    NativeAccess (nativePath=0xae53e0 "t", mode=2)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/win/tclWinFile.c:1658
    1658 if (!(*tclWinProcs->impersonateSelfProc)(SecurityImpersonation)) {
    (gdb)
    0x77dfd203 in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
    (gdb)
    Single stepping until exit from function _libws2_32_a_iname,
    which has no line number information.
    0x7c92aa7d in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
    (gdb)
    Single stepping until exit from function _libws2_32_a_iname,
    which has no line number information.
    NativeAccess (nativePath=0xae53e0 "t", mode=2)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/win/tclWinFile.c:1665
    1665 if (!(*tclWinProcs->openThreadTokenProc)(GetCurrentThread(),
    (gdb)
    0x77dd7b3d in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
    (gdb)
    Single stepping until exit from function _libws2_32_a_iname,
    which has no line number information.
    0x7c90de0e in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
    (gdb)
    Single stepping until exit from function _libws2_32_a_iname,
    which has no line number information.
    NativeAccess (nativePath=0xae53e0 "t", mode=2)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/win/tclWinFile.c:1674
    1674 (*tclWinProcs->revertToSelfProc)();
    (gdb)
    0x77dd7ba9 in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
    (gdb)
    Single stepping until exit from function _libws2_32_a_iname,
    which has no line number information.
    0x7c90e642 in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
    (gdb)
    Single stepping until exit from function _libws2_32_a_iname,
    which has no line number information.
    NativeAccess (nativePath=0xae53e0 "t", mode=2)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/win/tclWinFile.c:1681
    1681 if (mode & R_OK) {
    (gdb)
    (gdb) next
    1684 if (mode & W_OK) {
    (gdb)
    1685 desiredAccess |= FILE_GENERIC_WRITE;
    (gdb)
    1687 if (mode & X_OK) {
    (gdb)
    1691 memset(&genMap, 0x0, sizeof(GENERIC_MAPPING));
    (gdb)
    1692 genMap.GenericRead = FILE_GENERIC_READ;
    (gdb)
    1693 genMap.GenericWrite = FILE_GENERIC_WRITE;
    (gdb)
    1694 genMap.GenericExecute = FILE_GENERIC_EXECUTE;
    (gdb)
    1695 genMap.GenericAll = FILE_ALL_ACCESS;
    (gdb)
    1701 if (!(*tclWinProcs->accessCheckProc)(sdPtr, hToken, desiredAccess,
    (gdb)
    0x77dd7c11 in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
    (gdb)
    Single stepping until exit from function _libws2_32_a_iname,
    which has no line number information.
    0x7c90d38e in _libws2_32_a_iname ()
    (gdb)
    Single stepping until exit from function _libws2_32_a_iname,
    which has no line number information.
    NativeAccess (nativePath=0xae53e0 "t", mode=2)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/win/tclWinFile.c:1723
    1723 HeapFree(GetProcessHeap(), 0, sdPtr);
    (gdb)
    1724 CloseHandle(hToken);
    (gdb)
    1725 if (!accessYesNo) {
    (gdb)
    1726 Tcl_SetErrno(EACCES);
    (gdb)
    1727 return -1;
    (gdb)
    1743 }
    (gdb) list
    1738 Tcl_SetErrno(EACCES);
    1739 return -1;
    1740 }
    1741 }
    1742 return 0;
    1743 }
    1744 ^L
    1745 /*
    1746 *----------------------------------------------------------------------
    1747 *
    (gdb) next
    TclpObjAccess (pathPtr=0xae2408, mode=2)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/win/tclWinFile.c:2386
    2386 }
    (gdb)
    Tcl_FSAccess (pathPtr=0xae2408, mode=2)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclIOUtil.c:2133
    2133 }
    (gdb)
    CheckAccess (interp=0x3d7f48, pathPtr=0xae2408, mode=2)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclCmdAH.c:1411
    1411 Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewBooleanObj(value));
    (gdb)
    1413 return TCL_OK;
    (gdb)
    1414 }
    (gdb)
    Tcl_FileObjCmd (dummy=0x0, interp=0x3d7f48, objc=3, objv=0xa9d2b8)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclCmdAH.c:1376
    1376 }
    (gdb)
    TclEvalObjvInternal (interp=0x3d7f48, objc=3, objv=0xa9d2b8,
    command=0xffffffff "P~o", length=-1, flags=0)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclBasic.c:3696
    3696 if (TclAsyncReady(iPtr)) {
    (gdb)
    3699 if (code == TCL_OK && TclLimitReady(iPtr->limit)) {
    (gdb)
    3707 if (traced) {
    (gdb)
    3738 TclCleanupCommandMacro(cmdPtr);
    (gdb)
    3747 if (*(iPtr->result) != 0) {
    (gdb)
    3759 if (savedVarFramePtr) {
    (gdb)
    3762 return code;
    (gdb) print code
    $6 = 0
    (gdb) next
    3849 }
    (gdb)
    TclExecuteByteCode (interp=0x3d7f48, codePtr=0xae5338)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclExecute.c:2342
    2342 CACHE_STACK_INFO();
    (gdb)
    2343 iPtr->cmdFramePtr = iPtr->cmdFramePtr->nextPtr;
    (gdb)
    2345 if (result == TCL_OK) {
    (gdb)
    2349 if (*(pc+pcAdjustment) == INST_POP) {
    (gdb)
    2361 objResultPtr = Tcl_GetObjResult(interp);
    (gdb)
    2376 TclNewObj(objPtr);
    (gdb)
    2377 Tcl_IncrRefCount(objPtr);
    (gdb)
    2378 iPtr->objResultPtr = objPtr;
    (gdb)
    2379 NEXT_INST_V(pcAdjustment, objc, -1);
    (gdb)
    1794 switch (cleanup) {
    (gdb)
    1799 cleanup -= 2;
    (gdb)
    1800 while (cleanup--) {
    (gdb)
    1801 valuePtr = POP_OBJECT();
    (gdb)
    1802 TclDecrRefCount(valuePtr);
    (gdb)
    1800 while (cleanup--) {
    (gdb)
    1806 valuePtr = POP_OBJECT();
    (gdb)
    1807 TclDecrRefCount(valuePtr);
    (gdb)
    1810 valuePtr = OBJ_AT_TOS;
    (gdb)
    1811 TclDecrRefCount(valuePtr);
    (gdb)
    1813 OBJ_AT_TOS = objResultPtr;
    (gdb)
    1814 goto cleanup0;
    (gdb)
    1866 if ((instructionCount++ & ASYNC_CHECK_COUNT_MASK) == 0) {
    (gdb)
    1907 if (*pc == INST_LOAD_SCALAR1) {
    (gdb)
    1909 } else if (*pc == INST_PUSH1) {
    (gdb)
    1913 switch (*pc) {
    (gdb)
    1956 if (tosPtr > initTosPtr) {
    (gdb)
    1964 Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, OBJ_AT_TOS);
    (gdb)
    1972 goto checkForCatch;
    (gdb)
    7278 if ((result == TCL_ERROR) && !(iPtr->flags & ERR_ALREADY_LOGGED)) {
    (gdb)
    7286 iPtr->flags &= ~ERR_ALREADY_LOGGED;
    (gdb)
    7293 while ((expandNestList != NULL) && ((catchTop == initCatchTop) ||
    (gdb)
    7308 if (TclLimitExceeded(iPtr->limit)) {
    (gdb)
    7317 if (catchTop == initCatchTop) {
    (gdb)
    7324 goto abnormalReturn;
    (gdb)
    7379 while (tosPtr > initTosPtr) {
    (gdb)
    7380 Tcl_Obj *objPtr = POP_OBJECT();
    (gdb)
    7382 Tcl_DecrRefCount(objPtr);
    (gdb)
    7379 while (tosPtr > initTosPtr) {
    (gdb)
    7389 while (expandNestList) {
    (gdb)
    7395 if (tosPtr < initTosPtr) {
    (gdb)
    7405 TclArgumentBCRelease((Tcl_Interp*) iPtr,codePtr);
    (gdb)
    7411 TclStackFree(interp, initCatchTop+1);
    (gdb)
    7412 return result;
    (gdb)
    7414 }
    (gdb) print result
    $7 = 0
    (gdb) next
    TclCompEvalObj (interp=0x3d7f48, objPtr=0xae2450, invoker=0x0, word=0)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclExecute.c:1475
    1475 codePtr->refCount--;
    (gdb)
    1476 if (codePtr->refCount <= 0) {
    (gdb)
    1500 iPtr->numLevels--;
    (gdb)
    1501 return result;
    (gdb)
    1502 }
    (gdb)
    TclEvalObjEx (interp=0x3d7f48, objPtr=0xae2450, flags=131072, invoker=0x0,
    word=0) at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclBasic.c:5102
    5102 if (iPtr->numLevels == 0) {
    (gdb)
    5103 if (result == TCL_RETURN) {
    (gdb)
    5106 if ((result != TCL_OK) && (result != TCL_ERROR)
    (gdb)
    5114 iPtr->evalFlags = 0;
    (gdb)
    5115 iPtr->varFramePtr = savedVarFramePtr;
    (gdb)
    5119 TclDecrRefCount(objPtr);
    (gdb)
    5120 return result;
    (gdb)
    5121 }
    (gdb)
    Tcl_EvalObjEx (interp=0x3d7f48, objPtr=0xae2450, flags=131072)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclBasic.c:4904
    4904 }
    (gdb)
    Tcl_RecordAndEvalObj (interp=0x3d7f48, cmdPtr=0xae2450, flags=131072)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclHistory.c:163
    163 return result;
    (gdb)
    164 }
    (gdb)
    Tcl_Main (argc=-1, argv=0x3d269c, appInitProc=0x401378 <Tcl_AppInit>)
    at d:/msys/1.0/home/zeng/src/tcl8.5.6/generic/tclMain.c:555
    555 inChannel = Tcl_GetStdChannel(TCL_STDIN);
    (gdb)
    556 outChannel = Tcl_GetStdChannel(TCL_STDOUT);
    (gdb)
    557 errChannel = Tcl_GetStdChannel(TCL_STDERR);
    (gdb)
    558 Tcl_DecrRefCount(commandPtr);
    (gdb)
    559 commandPtr = Tcl_NewObj();
    (gdb)
    560 Tcl_IncrRefCount(commandPtr);
    (gdb)
    561 if (code != TCL_OK) {
    (gdb)
    566 } else if (tty) {
    (gdb)
    567 resultPtr = Tcl_GetObjResult(interp);
    (gdb)
    568 Tcl_IncrRefCount(resultPtr);
    (gdb)
    569 Tcl_GetStringFromObj(resultPtr, &length);
    (gdb)
    570 if ((length > 0) && outChannel) {
    (gdb)
    571 Tcl_WriteObj(outChannel, resultPtr);
    (gdb)
    572 Tcl_WriteChars(outChannel, "\n", 1);

    #
    # result printed to tchsh
    # 0
    #
    (gdb)
    574 Tcl_DecrRefCount(resultPtr);
    (gdb)
    489 while ((inChannel != (Tcl_Channel) NULL) && !Tcl_InterpDeleted(interp)) {
    (gdb)
    490 if (mainLoopProc == NULL) {
    (gdb)
    491 if (tty) {
    (gdb)
    492 Prompt(interp, &prompt);
    (gdb)
    493 if (Tcl_InterpDeleted(interp)) {
    (gdb)
    496 if (Tcl_LimitExceeded(interp)) {
    (gdb)
    499 inChannel = Tcl_GetStdChannel(TCL_STDIN);
    (gdb)
    500 if (inChannel == (Tcl_Channel) NULL) {
    (gdb)
    504 if (Tcl_IsShared(commandPtr)) {
    (gdb)
    509 length = Tcl_GetsObj(inChannel, commandPtr);
    (gdb)

    #
    # now tclsh is ready to accept new input
    #

     
  • Danny Zeng

    Danny Zeng - 2009-03-03

    In NativeAccess, a GetServerInfo at level 101 may find a Samba server as “Windows NT 4.9 Server". Maybe we can skip some tests to avoid the false alarm.

     
  • Carlos Tasada

    Carlos Tasada - 2009-07-01

    Hi guys,

    What's the status of this bug? I've the same problem when accessing from a Vista machine to a network drive :( The same code seems to work fine both in Linux and Windows XP, accessing to the same network drive.

    I'm using ActiveTcl 8.5.4

     
  • Don Porter

    Don Porter - 2012-01-13

    The branch 'fix-win-native-access' includes a patch that
    may fix the bug reported here.

    http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/info/0aabf0529e

    I'm not equipped to test the effectiveness of the
    patch, or whether it introduces any new test
    failures or other problems. I'd be grateful if folks
    who can and who are intersted in this bug and related
    bugs could do so, and report back whether the patch
    is suitable for merging into the release branches.

     
  • Don Porter

    Don Porter - 2012-02-02

    Patch from fix-win-native-access branch
    committed for 8.4.20, 8.5.12, and 8.6b3.

    Continued testing strongly encouraged.

    In particular, the #define UNICODE variant
    of the trunk is likely to have some lingering
    problems.

     
  • Don Porter

    Don Porter - 2012-02-02
    • status: open --> pending-fixed