Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/24/15:57:04
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:52:34PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote:
>Hi Corinna,
>
>>>Looks pretty similar to me, but I was looking for the following:
>>>
>>>$ ls -ldin .\\tmp ./tmp
>>>2919335057 drwxr-xr-x 4 1006 513 0 Mar 10 13:06 ./tmp/
>>>2805415844195 drwxr-xr-x 4 1006 513 0 Mar 10 13:06 .\tmp/
>>>
>>>I came to that "program" by reducing the find soure to the bare
>>>minimum to show that problem.
>>>
>>>So again, is this an expected/tolerated behaviour?
>>
>>Yes, it's by design. The answer is "don't use DOS paths".
>
>It's nice to be mean, isn't it?
How about some clarification: "Don't use DOS paths if you want
consistent i-nodes?"
You're welcome to use DOS paths if you want. You just can't expect
UNIX-style behavior from them.
cgf
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