Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/01/03/08:50:06
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According to Linda A. Walsh on 12/31/2005 8:41 PM:
> I ran into this problem using "find".
> Ran into an odd problem where directories, in my root
> directory, above entry 39-40 are not being examined. It
> seems to be positionally related, but, importantly,
> specifying "noleaf" seems to work around the problem.
I need a bit more information to see if it is a bug in find, or a bug in
cygwin. When you say root directory, do you mean "/" or "c:"? What OS
are you running? Are you using a snapshot?
Hint: most of these questions could have been answered if you had followed
these directions, and attached cygcheck.out:
> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>
> As I understood it, Cygwin simulated the "." & ".." entries,
> making it unnecessary to use "noleaf" on hard disks (?).
Without further info, my guess is that it may be related to the snapshots
simulating the existance of /proc and /cygdrive, but neglecting to update
the link count of / accordingly. I noticed on my own system the following
behavior:
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 LOUNGE 1.5.19s(0.149/4/2) 20051224 14:32:37 i686 Cygwin
$ ls -F `cygpath -w /`
ls: c:\cygwin/proc: No such file or directory
bin/ cygwin.bat* dev/ home/ lib/ srv/ usr/
cygdrive/ cygwin.ico* etc/ install/ sbin/ tmp/ var/
$ ls -ldF `cygpath -w /`
drwxr-xr-x+ 14 eblake None 0 Nov 2 21:00 c:\cygwin/
Indeed, c:\cygwin has 14 entries (12 subdirectories, ., and ..). But
notice that warning about the missing c:\cygwin/proc. When I look at the
cygwin spelling of that mount point:
$ mount -m | grep '\"/\"'
mount -f -s -b "c:/cygwin" "/"
$ ls -F /
bin/ cygwin.bat* dev/ home/ lib/ sbin/ tmp/ var/
cygdrive/ cygwin.ico* etc/ install/ proc/ srv/ usr/
$ ls -ldF /
drwxr-xr-x+ 14 eblake None 0 Nov 2 21:00 //
Now 13 subdirectories were listed (thanks to the implicit /proc), but the
link count was still stuck at 14 instead of the expected 15.
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9 AT byu DOT net
volunteer cygwin findutils maintainer
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