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 Message-ID: <020501c2cbd4$b77f3e30$696f86d9@webdev> From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" , "Norton Allen" References: <200302032241.RAA19340@bottesini.harvard.edu> Subject: Re: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:36:35 -0000 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 V6.00.2800.1106 > FWIW, I've just tested on Linux (of some flavor) and OpenBSD, > and neither thinks ' ' is a directory. > > In any event, I'd like to figure out whether it's a bug or > a feature under Cygwin so I can move forward. Sorry, it is my head then :/ It may just be a Cygwin geature, and by looking at the strace output 293 1191913 [main] ls 2188 fhandler_base::fstat: here 99 1192012 [main] ls 2188 fstat64: 0 = fstat (1, 0x241FCA8) 298 1192310 [main] ls 2188 writev: writev (1, 0x241FD78, 1) 480 1192790 [main] ls 2188 fhandler_base::write: binary write total 0 It looks as if passing ' ' to ls -al makes it think that ' ' is the current working directory. Never looked at the fhandler code so I'm probably way out :::::-) Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn@exposure.org.uk www.exposure.org.uk -- 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/