Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Problem with mount.cifs

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Hey,


Quoting Andrzej Odyniec <an...@ma...>:
> Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>> The addition of cifsutils was in preparation of the upgrade to samba 3.6.
>> The new samba version doesn't include any of the cifs client tools, that's
>> why we need that package.
>
> Heiko,
>
> You are right. I did not check carefully the cause. Now I'm wiser, because I
> read the sources.
>
>> I just checked in the latest samba and an update to cifsutils. Hopefully the
>> newer version works better for you.
>
> Before I wrote first mail, I checked the same with these new  
> versions of samba
> and cifs-utils. It did not solve the problem. Anyway, thanks for the upgrade.
>
> The problem is with realpath function, which is used in mount.cifs to
> canonicalize mount point path. Two specifications are used for this function:
> one assumes that the second argument is obvious pointer to the buffer for
> canonicalized path, and the second allows to NULL pointer, when realpath
> should malloc memory for that buffer. mount.cifs uses second form and gives
> NULL pointer to this call, but for some reason (for me at least), realpath is
> not accepting NULL in the second parameter and gives error. Well, only in
> 32-bit compilation. Maybe because of some additional packages, added myself,
> cifs-utils catch invalid library? I have to find the cause or patch  
> cifs-utils.

Does the version I built work for you?

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Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
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