Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/11/24/16:16:34
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 10:11:46PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 04:07:14PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 09:35:34PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 09:14:27PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:06:43AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >> > The only thing wrong with this currently is that zsh times out trying to
>> >> > read the floppy drive the first time.
>> >>
>> >> It does on empty CD-ROMs and any kind of removable media drives, too.
>> >> That is, three times the "no media" message on my XP box. I like this
>> >
>> >Oh, I just found that the `no media' message doesn't happen with
>> >the patch I've sent a few minutes ago. Now they are not shown as
>> >
>> >/cygdrive/a: no medium
>> >
>> >but as
>> >
>> >dr-xr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 a
>> >
>> >The drives are still accessed, though but that's probably only a
>> >problem for floppies.
>>
>> Does the current CVS do this?
>>
>> I seemed to notice some messages the first time I tried the patch
>> but then they disappeared. I think that Windows is somehow caching
>> the fact that the drive is off-line.
>
>Hmm, now I'm getting (reproducable) another message on drives w/o
>medium:
>
>/home/corinna[101]$ ll /cygdrive
>ls: /cygdrive/a: Not a directory
>ls: /cygdrive/p: Not a directory
>ls: /cygdrive/r: Not a directory
>total 0
>drwxr-xr-x 18 corinna root 0 Jan 1 1980 c
>drwxrwxrwx 8 root root 0 Nov 21 19:11 d
>drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 0 Nov 22 20:24 e
>
>My patch did it nicer ;-)
Except that your patch looked for /cygdrive.lnk, /cygdrive.exe and then
doing something undefined if one of those was found.
cgf
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