Bug 101070 - bash shows old directory entries
Summary: bash shows old directory entries
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-07-28 21:43 UTC by Olen
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:56 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-09-30 15:41:22 UTC
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Description Olen 2003-07-28 21:43:15 UTC
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Description of problem:
When a firs bash is in a directory, say ~/bin of your files, it becomes 
confused, if in another (second) shell ~/bin is moved to ~/bin2, and a cp -r 
~/bin2 ~/bin is issued.

$ mv ~/bin ~/bin2
$ cp -r ~/bin2 ~/bin


ls -i in the first shell will show the old inode numbers, as a side note 
executing a program from bin will not see the new versions of the files either, 
it will run the old executables.

ls -i in the second shell will show the right inode numbers.

So it seems the first bash is using files that aren't even in the file system 
anymore.  This was done on an ext3 journaled file system, in case that is where 
the problem acutally is.



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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cd ~/bin in one bash. Assume ~/bin has some files in it.
2. in another bash 
   a. mv ~/bin ~/bin2
   b. cp -r ~/bin2 ~/bin
   c. ls -i ~/bin
3.In original bash ls -i ~/bin
4. Note the different inode numbers.
    

Actual Results:  Old executables were being executed, after a cvs checkout, and 
recompile occured in another shell.  

Expected Results:  I think bash would access the files that are still in the 
filesystem.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2003-07-29 12:58:29 UTC
Bash doesn't cache this sort of stuff.

Comment 2 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 15:41:22 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/



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