[openbeos] Re: A note to file system writers

Ok, forcing conf_ls_root_parent = true; in NFS makes Tracker 
work much better in Zeta. still its Tracker seems to ave a 
race bug which results in crashes in strcmp sometimes.
Whenever I get the sources cleaned up I would put NFS client 
in cvs sometime.

François.

> Hi,
> 
> with the help of Ingo Weinhold, I've located a bug in several file 
> systems. File systems that don't have a ".." entry for their root 
> level 
> directory will cause BEntry::GetPath() to fail on Dano and Zeta.
> In Tracker, you can see the outcome of this bug when the single 
> window 
> browsing mode is activated with the navigator bar: the path name will 
> be lost when you enter a directory level higher than 3.
> 
> Known to be affected are ftpfs by Michael Pfeiffer and beserved by 
> Teldar Inc. (to whom I forwarded this message, too).
>

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