Ignore message [was: smbfs bug found; SMB bug?]

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Fri, 12 Sep 1997 15:57:26 -0400

Without sufficient forethought Bill Hawes wrote:
> I just tracked down the cause of the smbfs oopses with ls -lR. I've got
> a directory on the NT machine with some long filenames -- web page names
> or something. The long dirent returned by NT 4.0 (no patches) gives a
> _negative_ length of -105. This is the value extracted by the decode
> routine as *(p+26).

False alarm; I realized we were unpacking from a signed char array.
Problem is fixed, and ls -lR works fine now.

Regards,
Bill