Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/10/31/16:11:15
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:55:28PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 02:39 PM 10/31/2000, Richard Y. Kim wrote:
>> >>>>> "LH" == Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) <lhall AT rfk DOT com> writes:
>>
>> LH> Try cding into /mnt/d/projects/apwin/tools/ and
>> LH> doing the ls -l ./foo. I assume that foo is
>> LH> listable if you provide the full DOS or mounted
>> LH> path, right?
>>
>> # cd'ing via /mnt/d does not show ./foo
>> bash-2.04$ cd /mnt/d/projects/apwin/tools/
>> bash-2.04$ ls -l ./foo
>> ls: ./foo: No such file or directory
>> bash-2.04$ cat ./foo
>> cat: ./foo: No such file or directory
>>
>> # cd'ing via d:/ *does* show ./foo
>> bash-2.04$ cd d:/projects/apwin/tools/
>> bash-2.04$ ls -l ./foo
>> ls: ./foo: No such file or directory
>> bash-2.04$ cat ./foo
>> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
>> use Cwd;
>> my $dir = cwd;
>> print "cwd = $dir\n";
>>
>> # using fullpath does not show ./foo at all
>> bash-2.04$ ls -l d:/projects/apwin/tools/foo
>> ls: d:/projects/apwin/tools/foo: No such file or directory
>> bash-2.04$ ls -l /mnt/d/projects/apwin/tools/foo
>> ls: /mnt/d/projects/apwin/tools/foo: No such file or directory
>> bash-2.04$ cat d:/projects/apwin/tools/foo
>> cat: d:/projects/apwin/tools/foo: No such file or directory
>> bash-2.04$ cat /mnt/d/projects/apwin/tools/foo
>> cat: /mnt/d/projects/apwin/tools/foo: No such file or directory
>> bash-2.04$
>>
>>I recall reading about a new feature in w2k's file system
>>where it tries to keep a single copy of a file if the
>>content is the same. I am going to see if I can dig up the
>>reference to that. Perhaps that "feature" is getting in the
>>way of cygwin? I'll keep you posted.
>
>If this reference is what I think it is, then I don't think you'll find it
>addresses your issue. Actually, I just tried the latest DLL (1.1.5.x) and
>similar actions worked OK for me. I did this on W2K so I don't think there's
>an issue there. Here's the output of uname -a from this DLL:
>
>CYGWIN_NT-5.0 ENTERPRISE-E 1.1.6(0.29/3/2) 2000-10-30 20:28 i686 unknown
>
>Given that you note in another (private) email message that adding a "/"
>to the end of the directory you cd to resolves the issue, it almost seems
>to have the flavor of a CR/LF issue, though obviously that's not really it.
>Can you ls any files in the directory with foo? Can you ls that directory
>itself? Is you ls aliased to anything?
>
>As you can tell, I'm grasping at straws!;-)
What does /bin/pwd report after you've cd'ed? And, what does 'ls -l .' show?
cgf
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