On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 11:31:26 -0600, Michael Burk wrote:
> I applied the 3-line patch to the 0831 snapshot and ran a full backup on
> both machines, with 4 file systems each. All 8 completed successfully with
> no "strange" messages.
>
> Next, I commented out the 3 new lines and tried the backup again on one of
> the machines. This time all 4 file systems failed; e.g.:

[...]

> So it seems reliable that those 3 lines fix the problem somehow.
> Anything else you want to try before I ask for help on the OpenBSD list?

I'm no expert on this topic, but if I were investigating something like
this, I'd be curious to know if all three of the lines in the patch were
necessary for the fix.

Since, as you pointed out, the error seems to be tied to the indexing
subprocess, I wonder what would happen if you included only the one

  fcntl(indexfd, F_GETFL, 0);

line of the patch, but not the other two....


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