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Re: lockfile & link on Core Duo laptop


On Jun-25-06 07:06AM, Lev Bishop wrote (Re: lockfile & link on Core Duo laptop):
> On 6/25/06, Benjamin D wrote:
> >
> >Works fine, so I try seeing what happens with strace:
> >
> > $ ls -il foo bar; touch foo && strace link foo bar > strace.out 2>&1 && 
> > ls -il foo bar
> > ls: foo: No such file or directory
> > ls: bar: No such file or directory
> > ls: bar: No such file or directory
> > 2814749767163063 -rw------- 1 bdodge mkgroup-l-d 0 Jun 24 20:58 foo
> 
> Some WAG things to try:
> a) Put in a pause:
> $ ls -il foo bar; touch foo && sleep 2 && strace link foo bar >
> strace.out 2>&1 && ls -il foo bar

Nope.

> b) Completely uninstall the Embassy Trusted Security thing (or
> whatever it's called).

Yes! Thanks! :-)

> c) Suspect (and, to test, uninstall (not just disable)) any realtime
> virus scanners, personal firewalls, file indexers (google desktop
> search) and anything else that hooks into file syscalls stuff.
> (Especially do this if step (a) made any difference).

For the record, I tried this 2nd (before uninstalling Embassy). It
didn't help to disable the Windows "Indexing Service".

Thanks again!
- Benjamin

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