Re: FCOOKIE_CACHE: serious problems with stale data

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

sm001pe@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Pereira Martins) writes:

|>> There is a serious problem with the cookie cache: if two different
|>> file names are used that the filesystem treats the same (because of
|>> truncation) the cache can contain stale data, resulting in incorrect
|>> file name.
[...]

|> Well, how does this cookie cache works ?
|> This cache is a piece of memory ?!! But this truncation only happens
|> if you access GEMDOS partitions!

No, it occurs on *any* file system (except those with _POSIX_NO_TRUNC,
but these can be ignored :-)