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 13:09:47 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: vpath search failures in Clearcase when files do actually exist Message-ID: <20041110180944.GA17694@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20041110005123.GA8575@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20041110174726.GA247527@Worldnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041110174726.GA247527@Worldnet> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:47:26PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >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. Would it have made you feel better if I had said "for dealing with paths and determining if something is a directory"? >To limit the output you could initially filter it like this: >strace something | grep -B 1 'st_mode=\|stat_worker: -1' If the OP is willing to do this then I hope he does it on a standard filesystem like NTFS, as I originally suggested. If there is a problem there then it is obviously not a ClearCase problem. -- 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/