[Mono-list] silly samba/nt4/cygwin problem

[Martin Baulig]

Daniel Stodden <stodden@in.tum.de> writes:

> this might be somewhat offtopic for mono-list, but since the nt4 box
> under my desk is mostly there for running csc -- maybe someone around
> here can help me out.
> 
> bitch is running samba-2.2.3a on linux 2.4.18.
> ballmer NT4sp6a with cygwin.
> xemacs on X for coding, secure shell into bash on ballmer for builds.
> $HOME shared to ballmer via smb.
> 
> the strange behavior is this: 
> 1. save a .cs file on the linux box
> 2. switch to the NT terminal
> 3. run csc
> 4. parse error: ';' missing in line y (or similar).
> 5. investigate. but no typos at all..
> 
> i've originally thought csc has troubles with unix line endings. it has
> not:
> 
> 6. ballmer: "csc x.cs"
> 7. parser error again.
> 8. cat x.cs
> 9. csc x.cs
> 10. compilation successful. wow.
> 
> the share does _never_ really mess up the contents. what it does is
> producing very small typos like repeating just one or two ascii
> characters, e.g. a comma or so, leading to small syntax errors.
> doing a simple 'cat' on that file always seems to fix the problem.
> 
> anyone with similar phenomenons or a tip which screw to turn?

I get the same behavior, but I have no idea what it is.

Doing a `cat *.cs > /dev/null ; <some command>' helps.

-- 
Martin Baulig
martin@gnome.org