Subject: kern/32034: openoffice2 linux binary can't list tmpfs directories.
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/10/2005 01:42:00
>Number: 32034
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: openoffice2 linux binary can't list tmpfs directories
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Nov 10 01:42:00 +0000 2005
>Originator: Steven M. Bellovin
>Release: NetBSD 3.99.11
>Organization:
Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
>Environment:
System: NetBSD berkshire.machshav.com 3.99.11 NetBSD 3.99.11 (BERKSHIRE) #0: Tue Nov 8 03:08:22 EST 2005 smb@berkshire.machshav.com:/usr/BUILD/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/BERKSHIRE i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
I'm running the Linux binary of Openoffice2 (from pkgsrc) on an
up-to-date -current system. When I use ^O to open a file, it can't
list any such directories.
Here's a shell sequence:
# mount -t mfs /dev/wd0b /mnt
# cp ~smb/.profile /mnt/foo.txt
# umount /mnt
# mount -t tmpfs /dev/wd0b /mnt
# cp ~smb/.profile /mnt/foo.txt
# umount /mnt
# mount -t mfs /dev/wd0b /mnt
# cp ~smb/.profile /mnt/foo.txt
# umount /mnt
Right after each 'cp', I uniconized OpenOffice2, typed ^O, typed
/mnt/ [ENTER]
in the box. For the mfs file system, it showed foo.txt; for the tmpfs
file system, it showed nothing. I can open the file by typing its
name, so it's annoying rather than critical. Working in a subdirectory
didn't help.
>How-To-Repeat:
See above
>Fix:
No fix, but you can bypass the problem by typing the full pathname
of the file you want to open into the dialog box. That is, it can
open files; it just can't list the directories they're in.
>Unformatted: