Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-WM-Posted-At: avacado.atomice.net; Thu, 27 Jun 02 22:40:24 +0100 Message-ID: <01fa01c21e23$3ea514d0$0100a8c0@advent02> From: "Chris January" To: References: <3.0.5.32.20020625225959.0080a290@mail.attbi.com> <3.0.5.32.20020625225959.0080a290@mail.attbi.com> <3.0.5.32.20020626205415.00808240@mail.attbi.com> <010101c21dfa$922f5440$0100a8c0@advent02> <20020627165939.GD28018@redhat.com> <20020627185745.GH28529@redhat.com> Subject: Re: Bug in cvs cygwin1.dll ? Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 22:40:24 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 > >>I don't think this is the problem. This should actually be fixed in > >>the latest snapshot. > > > >Fair enough - my guess from the strace was that mv was stat'ing /c, > >finding it not there (because the cygdrive prefix is set to / and > >Cygwin is taking the directory listing of C:\Cygwin as authoritative > >for /) and trying to copy the file ggg as /c. > > The problem was that FindFirstFile returns an error when given "c:\" as > its first argument. > > AFAICT, the use of /c, /e, etc. was irrelevant. In fact, just doing a > "ls /c" failed. Ah - I can see how that would have produced this error. Thank you for taking the time to explain. Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/