Re: mc-2006-07-12-22 bug report

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 09:14 +0200, enrico wrote:
> > 0x080be9e0 in vfs_s_generate_entry (me=0x81043c0, name=0x81b69f0 "WA",
> > parent=0x0, mode=493) at direntry.c:179   │            │
> > 179         inode = vfs_s_new_inode (me, parent->super, st); 
>
> See "FIXME: check if vfs_s_find_inode returns NULL" in direntry.c.
> Apparently, what's happening is exactly that.  Of course, it's not hard
> to check the result and return, but it would be nice to actually make mc
> work rather than bail out.
>
> I cannot reproduce this error, so I guess you are doing something
> unusual with the FTP server.  More details about that could be helpful.

I've seen the problem in the past. I just have to find it in the archives. 
There was a particular reason why inode becomes NULL and as far as I 
remember the proper fix had to be applied in another place. I'll let you 
know when I find that thread.