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Egerton, Jim wrote:

> For historical reasons we (ducking now) install cygwin in /.

> This breaks find:

  Hate to say "We Told You So", but we did.  You get to keep the pieces! :-)

  Although actually this /particular/ problem seems to be a bug in cygwin's
find; it's come up a couple of times in the past few months and been referred
back upstream IIRC.  Don't suppose "-xdev" helps does it?

    cheers,
      DaveK

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