Subject: Re: df accesses floppy
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 14:29:05 -0400

On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 10:30:22AM -0700, kin techie com wrote:
> I don't anything obvious in the strace listing.  It seems like
> the floppy is accessed during one of mount_info calls before the
> wait_for_sigthread call below.
> 
> For now, I just disabled the floppy in XP to cope with this
> problem -- now dired in emacs works much better.

I don't know if this has anything to do with your problem, but the
PATH inherited from Windows is weird, in particular the part between
the double quotes.

  29    3713 [main] df 192 win_env::add_cache: native
+PATH=d:\cygwin\usr\local\bin;d:\cygwin\bin;d:\cygwin\bin;d:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin;c:\WINDOWS\system32;c:\WINDOW
+S;c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;c:\Perl\bin\;c:\WINDOWS\system32\WBEM;"C;d:\cygwin\Program
+Files\Hummingbird\Connectivity\7.00\Accessories\";d:\cygwin\bin;d:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
   28    3741 [main] df 192 posify: env var converted to
+PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdriv
+e/c/WINDOWS/COMMAND:/cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WBEM:"C:/Program
+Files/Hummingbird/Connectivity/7.00/Accessories/":/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

Pierre

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