Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/01/09/11:38:53
Don Sharp wrote:
>
> Dear Philip,
> It will be worthwhile to reiterate that /dosd is a real directory on
> which is mounted the root of a FAT partition. ls -F /dosd gives
>
> $ ls -F dosd
> DCOLON/ ffastun.ffl ffastun0.ffx recycled/ users/
> ffastun.ffa ffastun.ffo mpsdata/ temp/
>
> Notice no logical links. Now the surprise
>
> find dosd -follow -type f -mtime -15 -print
>
> WORKS!!!
>
> BTW I would like to forward our communication to cygwin, if you are
> agreeable. Forward it yourself if you prefer.
>
> Thanks very much
>
> Don Sharp
>
> Philip Sainty wrote:
> >
> > Hi Don,
> >
> > > > > cd dosd
> > > > > find * -type f -mtime -15 -print
> > > > >
> > > > > the expected results are obtained.
> > > > >
> > > > > It would seem that find is not always descending the directories
> > under
> > > > > a mount point.
> > > >
> > > > Ahhh, it (dosd) is a mounted dir?
> > >
> > > Yes, I think that is provoking the error (sometimes). My dosc which is
> > > another mounted FAT drive works OK!
> >
> > Are there symlink'd directories involved, by any chance?
> >
> > cygwin's find doesn't treat these as real directories when given in the
> > pathname, and therefore doesn't enter them unless you specify that
> > all symlinks should be followed!
> >
> > If dsoc and dsod are to all intents and purposes identical structures,
> > however, that really sounds weird.
> >
> > See if this affects things:
> > find dsod -follow -type f -mtime -15 -print
> >
> > -Phil
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