Delivery-Date: Sun Sep  7 18:10:17 2008
Message-Id: <200809080109.m88198fF021229@bourbon.usc.edu>
To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu
Subject: Re: Error with FileSize
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:09:08 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > Yea 'm doing stat()Appropriate response means 0xFE12 (in case of error).

You need to tell me what you are passing to stat().  Please
use the debugger so you know exactly what you are passing
to stat() and not what you think you are passing to stat().
--
Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>


On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu> wrote:

> Someone wrote:
>
>  > Hello,When I specify any file that exists on server, it gives me the
> file
>  > size (num of bytes occupied by the file).
>
> Do you call stat() or something equivalent?
>
>  > If the file doesn't exist, it give appropriate response.
>
> I'm not sure what "appropriate response" means.  It depends
> on which API you call.
>
>  > But... If I specify www.Google.com as the name of the file who's size I
> want
>  > to know, The server doesn't give error message (doesn't give FILE NOT
> FOUND
>  > error).
>  > But it gives FILE SIZE as 0 (ZERO).
>
> Which server?  Your server?
>
>  > Does that mean, Unix considers / is able to detect www.google.com as a
> file
>  > but fails to get the size of the same?
>
> I don't know how your server work.  Does it try to stat()
> "/www.Google.com"?  If it does, it should get an error.
> Actually, it should not prepend "/" in front if it!  It
> should just try to stat() "www.Google.com" in the current
> working directlry.
> --
> Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>