odd ext3 problem with 2.5.50

Erm. Whats going on here ?

(davej@tetrachloride:davej)$ ls .viminfo
ls: .viminfo: No such file or directory
(davej@tetrachloride:davej)$ touch .viminfo
touch: creating `.viminfo': File exists
(davej@tetrachloride:davej)$ 

strace of the touch..

brk(0x8050000) = 0x8050000
open(".viminfo", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
utime(".viminfo", NULL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "touch: ", 7touch: ) = 7
write(2, "creating .viminfo\'", 19creating .viminfo') = 19
write(2, ": File exists", 13: File exists) = 13
write(2, "\n", 1
) = 1
_exit(1) = ?

strace of the ls...

lstat64(".viminfo", 0x80580ac) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "ls: ", 4ls: ) = 4

.viminfo is actually there, and does show up with bash's tab completion. Weird.

Dave

| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

problem solved - The fs/namei.c patch already posted seems to have fixed this.

Dave

| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs