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 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:42:39 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: lstat on FAT - Was: Problem with find on FAT drives Message-ID: <20040324214239.GA6079@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4060B627.8000400@scytek.de> <20040324155332.GF17229@cygbert.vinschen.de> <4061E702.1040705@scytek.de> <20040324205644.GA4580@redhat.com> <20040324213057.GA296803@Worldnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040324213057.GA296803@Worldnet> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 04:30:57PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 03:56:44PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:52:34PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote: >> >Hi Corinna, >> > >> >>>Looks pretty similar to me, but I was looking for the following: >> >>> >> >>>$ ls -ldin .\\tmp ./tmp >> >>>2919335057 drwxr-xr-x 4 1006 513 0 Mar 10 13:06 ./tmp/ >> >>>2805415844195 drwxr-xr-x 4 1006 513 0 Mar 10 13:06 .\tmp/ >> >>> >> >>>I came to that "program" by reducing the find soure to the bare >> >>>minimum to show that problem. >> >>> >> >>>So again, is this an expected/tolerated behaviour? >> >> >> >>Yes, it's by design. The answer is "don't use DOS paths". >> > >> >It's nice to be mean, isn't it? >> >> How about some clarification: "Don't use DOS paths if you want >> consistent i-nodes?" >> >> You're welcome to use DOS paths if you want. You just can't expect >> UNIX-style behavior from them. > >I also had a look at the code and reached pretty much the same conclusion >as Volker. Replacing all 'isslash (*src)' and 'isslash (src[x])' in >normalize_posix_path by "isdirsep ()" would yield more consistent results. >I know this code is delicate but the possible drawback isn't obvious. speed disadvantage for nebulous gain. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/