Define Files on FreeBSD...

[Chad McWilliams]

> #####
> When trying to define a file on FreeBSD filePro I get the 
> following error:
> 
> 
> *** A System Error Has Occurred ***
> 
> Cannot open file.
> /usr/appl/filepro/<file>/map: No such file or directory
> #####
> 
> So, this tells us it's hitting ENOENT, or possibly one of 
> several other errors.  There are a limited amount of 
> conditions that could cause this:
> 
> 1) /usr/appl/filepro/<file>/map should exist already and an attempt at
>    opening it without O_CREAT is failing.
> 
> 2) /usr/appl/filepro/<file> is not being created itself prior to the
>    creation of the map.  I quote from the open(2) manpage:
> 
>        ENOENT A directory component in pathname does not exist or
>               is a dangling symbolic link.
> 
> Of course, all of this assumes that filePro is actually 
> reporting the error correctly.  I've gotten wholly unrelated 
> errors out of it before that point in entirely the wrong 
> direction.  However, the verbiage for ENOENT would indicate 
> that even if the error reporting is in the wrong place, that 
> was the last error condition encountered.  So I would hold at 
> least the system error to be accurate, even if the context 
> isn't.  Something that should exist, doesn't.
> 
> Does the file/table directory exist after you encounter this 
> (with or without a map or subsidiary files)?
> 
> mark->
> -- 

No, it never creates the directory.  I have tried various things to get it
to work, to no avail.  The only time it will work properly is if I have
previously created the directory /usr/appl/filepro/<file>.  Then everything
is peachy.

-Chad McWilliams