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, 10 Nov 2004 12:47:26 -0500 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: vpath search failures in Clearcase when files do actually exist Message-ID: <20041110174726.GA247527@Worldnet> References: <20041110005123.GA8575@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041110005123.GA8575@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 07:51:23PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 07:21:00PM -0500, Jeremy Broughton wrote: > >Cyg ver: 1.3.10 (although I have reproduced the same problem with 1.5.7) > >OS : Windows 2000 > >File system: MVFS (running gnumake inside a Rational Clearcase dynamic > >view) > >cygcheck: (See attached file: cygcheck.out) > > > >It appears as though there is a problem using the /cygdrive/m type paths > >inside MVFS when there are extremely large dependency trees. > > Unless you can point to problems with a standard, supported W2K filesystem, > please don't expect anyone to try to fix this. > > Cygwin uses standard Win32 APIs for detemining if something is a > directory. If those APIs are not working for Clearcase then it > is unlikely that anyone will be motivated to fix the problem on > the Cygwin side. The OP was suggesting both a problem determining if something is a directory and a problem related to pathnames. Running strace my shed some light on the root cause. To limit the output you could initially filter it like this: strace something | grep -B 1 'st_mode=\|stat_worker: -1' Pierre -- 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/