X-Recipient:	archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-SWARE-Spam-Status:	No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00
X-Spam-Check-By:	sourceware.org
X-Authority-Analysis:	v=1.0 c=1 a=EIaG7iyGLesA:10 a=rssiY-gfmSItLkfQJIsA:9 a=V89dAPQBOoW6-xEp2d1o3wfTk8UA:4
Message-ID:	<4B89F082.8040009@columbus.rr.com>
Date:	Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:26:42 -0500
From:	Paul McFerrin <pmcferrin AT columbus DOT rr DOT com>
Reply-To:	pmcferrin AT columbus DOT rr DOT com
User-Agent:	Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812)
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	I have a weird problem - double your files overnight with Perfect Disk - A Bug!!
X-IsSubscribed:	yes
Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id:	<cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

This is a weird problem.  Caused by interaction of cygwin 1.7 and 
Perfect Disk 7.0 (defragmeter).

A couple of days ago, I was defragmenting my drive C: when I discovered 
a copy of every cygwin's file with a naming convention of: 
AY63D92E~orig.file.name~.  The leading chars were 8 letters/numbers of 
uppercase.  The filename portion surrounded by the "~" character.  This 
happened only under the /cygwin tree while the MS-DOS (Win XP Pro) were 
unaffected.

All of these files were "copies" of cygwin's files (link count == 1).  
Now that Perfect Disk 7.0 is done with drive C:, I'm going to delete all 
47,000 of these burgers.

This a weird interaction between 1.7 and Perfect Disk.  The problem 
stopped happening when Perfect Disk finished with drive C:.  This is 
"far" from a feature, a definite bug.

One thing to note:  The mtimes of all of the duplicate files were 
current.  They did not reflect the mtime of the original file.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 Paul root     259 2010-02-25 18:05 L0QHCU1M~cygwin.bat~
-rwxr-xr-x   1 Paul root     248 2010-02-26 09:31 NFP7AJAE~cygwin.bat~~
-rwxr-xr-x   1 Paul root     248 2010-02-25 18:05 QHJ5D971~cygwin.bat~~
-rwxr-xr-x   1 Paul root     259 2010-02-26 09:31 U1GLPSA4~cygwin.bat~
-rwxr-xr-x   1 Paul root     248 2010-01-25 16:14 cygwin.bat~
-rwxr-xr-x   1 Paul root     259 2010-01-25 16:28 cygwin.bat
-rwxr-xr-x   1 Paul root     248 2010-02-26 09:57 
97CB2MO0~QHJ5D971~cygwin.bat~~~


--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

- Raw text -