Re: Results from is_dir() not consistent with documentation (?)

Hi, Thursday, May 1, 2003, 10:33:56 AM, you wrote: >> Explain 'weird' and someone may be able to help. JBS> Sorry, I thought I did that in the first post... JBS> (from initial post) >>I'm writing a script, part of which traverses a directory tree by opening a >>directory with opendir(), getting file handles, testing them to see if they >>are directories with is_dir(), and if they are then it opens them using >>opendir(), and soforth. It;'s a recursive function, and it seems to work >>nicely on the linux server. >> >>The trouble starts when trying to run it on the IIS server. Rather than >>have to rewrite the entire script and copy everything across to the other >>server, I mounted the NTFS share to the linux server using mount -t smb >>(etc...). >> >>The unusual thing is that from here, is_dir() only seems to work on a >>percentage of the files. The documentation suggests that it returns a >>boolean, however in practise it is returning 1's or 0's for some files, but >>is returning nothing at all for others...! So some of the directories are >>returning 1, others nothing. Some of the non-directory files are returning >>0, others nothing. JBS> Cheers, JBS> Jason Sorry about that, I missed the original... Looks like the stat system over smb is not 100% reliable. Maybe on the null ones you could try changing to it as if it was a directory and if that fails then it is not a directory.. Messy but I don't know enough about smb mounts to help. -- regards, Tom