[Lazarus] strange linux problem

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 03:46:51 -0500
brian <brian at meadows.pair.com> wrote:

>[...]
> on a network drive. This is using Debian 7.2, and a recent svn version 
> of Lazarus (I actually use fpcup to do the downloads and builds). The 
> information on the 'About' page is version 1.3, date 2014-02-12, fpc 
> version 2.6.3, svn revision 44027, x86_64-linux-gtk 2
>[...]
> chmods and/or deletes on the files on the network drive. 
> Stepping through with the debugger, some, but not all, of the 
> attempted chmods return a status of -1. Some, but not all, of the 
> calls to sysutils.deletefile return false. What is puzzling me is that 
> if, instead of calling fpchmod and sysutils.deletefile I instead call 
> fpsystem and do the operations that way, it works. I can also run up a 
> command prompt and do the failed operations that way with no problem.
>[...]

Is it reproducable on the same file?
Can you give an example file name?
What kind of network share?

Special characters, wrong encoding, server lock, faulty network.

Mattias