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Perl function "rename oldname, newname" eats network files #730

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p5pRT opened this issue Oct 18, 1999 · 2 comments
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Perl function "rename oldname, newname" eats network files #730

p5pRT opened this issue Oct 18, 1999 · 2 comments

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p5pRT commented Oct 18, 1999

Migrated from rt.perl.org#1642 (status was 'resolved')

Searchable as RT1642$

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p5pRT commented Oct 18, 1999

From andy.d.andrea@ontariopowergeneration.com

The "rename oldname, newname" function was being used to rename all files
in a directory that were named in lowercase or a lower/uppercase mix to all
uppercase.

The following code stops when the rename fails the first time. This code is
being run on a networked NT 4 system. The problem occurs when running the
script on a network directory containing about 20 files having lower case
character in their names. It doesn't seem to be a problem if working on a
local hard disk.

The file being worked on when rename fails is deleted from the filesystem!

Please let me know if fixed patch exists.

  Andy D'Andrea

#!/usr/bin/perl
############################################################ toupper
#
#####################################################################
$cnt = 0;
foreach (<*>) {
  ++$cnt;
  $oldname = $_;
  tr/a-z/A-Z/;
  $newname = $_;
  if( $newname ne $oldname) {
  (-e $oldname) ? print "$oldname -> $newname, ok?"​: die "$oldname not
there \n";
  $goahead = <STDIN>;
  (rename $oldname, $newname ) ? print " ...done. \n" : die ("whoa, too
fast for the network? $! \n");
  }
}


Site configuration information for perl 5.00503​:

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 03) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-object
  uname=''
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
  usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cl.exe', optimize='-Od -MD -DNDEBUG -TP -GX', gccversion=
  cppflags='-DWIN32'
  ccflags ='-Od -MD -DNDEBUG -TP -GX -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT
-DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_OBJECT'
  stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
  d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
  alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -release -machine​:x86'
  libpth="C​:\Tools\Perl\lib\core" "e​:\ntapps\devstudio\vc\lib"
"e​:\ntapps\devstudio\vc\mfc\lib" "d​:\program files\devstudio\vc\lib"
"d​:\program files\devstudio\vc\mfc\lib" "%lib%"
  libs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib
comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib
uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib
PerlCRT.lib
  libc=C​:\Tools\Perl\lib\CORE\PerlCRT.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes,
libperl=perlcore.lib
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
  cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -release
-machine​:x86'

Locally applied patches​:
  ACTIVEPERL_LOCAL_PATCHES_ENTRY


@​INC for perl 5.00503​:
  C​:/Tools/Perl/lib
  C​:/Tools/Perl/site/lib
  .


Environment for perl 5.00503​:
  HOME (unset)
  LANG (unset)
  LANGUAGE (unset)
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
  LOGDIR (unset)
  PATH=C​:\Program Files\DevStudio\SharedIDE\BIN;c​:\Program
Files\DevStudio\VF\BIN;c​:\Program
Files\DevStudio\VC\BIN;C​:\Tools\Perl\bin;C​:\WINNT\system32;C​:\WINNT;F​:\ORANT
\BIN;F​:\ORAWIN\BIN;F​:\SQLW502;C​:\PROGRAM FILES\TOOLKIT;c​:\PROGRAM
FILES\toolkit;c​:\program files\toolkit;F​:\CENTURA;C​:\Program Files\Mts
  PERL_BADLANG (unset)
  SHELL (unset)

Andy D'Andrea
Associate Engineer
Long-term Waste Management Technology Department
Nuclear Waste Management
* andy.d.andrea@​ontariopowergeneration.com
* (416)592-4391

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p5pRT commented Oct 29, 1999

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

If you think about it. It has to be a M$ bug. Why should perl care how many
renames it has done or how many files there are in a directory.

I've recently had to rewrite some ftp code that I had been running. The
file was transfered under a temproary name and then renamed to the final
name. But depending upon the current configuration of stars, a random
number of files would not show up in the remote machine.

So using that tried and true debuggin mechanism I tried some voodoo
programming and altered the algorithm to avoid the rename. Lo and
behold no complaints in two months.

Isn't voodoo programming fantastic.

<chaim>

"DA-" == D'ANDREA Andy -NUCLEAR <andy.d.andrea@​ontariopowergeneration.com> writes​:

DA-> This is a bug report for perl from andy.d.andrea@​ontariopowergeneration.com,
DA-> generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503.

DA-> The "rename oldname, newname" function was being used to rename all files
DA-> in a directory that were named in lowercase or a lower/uppercase mix to all
DA-> uppercase.

DA-> The following code stops when the rename fails the first time. This code is
DA-> being run on a networked NT 4 system. The problem occurs when running the
DA-> script on a network directory containing about 20 files having lower case
DA-> character in their names. It doesn't seem to be a problem if working on a
DA-> local hard disk.

DA-> The file being worked on when rename fails is deleted from the filesystem!

DA-> Please let me know if fixed patch exists.

--
Chaim Frenkel Nonlinear Knowledge, Inc.
chaimf@​pobox.com +1-718-236-0183

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