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: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 00:04:51 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: available for test: findutils-20041219-1 Message-ID: <20041224050451.GA22543@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20041219203809.GA32005@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <41CB9C86.DF363492@dessent.net> <20041224043943.GB22309@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <41CBA34D.13D639A5@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41CBA34D.13D639A5@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:04:13PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >However this also means that it's impossible for any "userspace" code >that wants to list the mounts to avoid the spurious floppy seek, which >seems like undue punishment. That has been the case for some time. >Especially mean since the error returned by GetFileAttributes causes >the code to ignore that drive and continue on, and so /cygdrive/a is >not returned in the mount list. The drive shows up if there is something in it. >I guess what I'm getting at is it's impossible to patch find (and the >various other utilities that were reported to cause a seek) to not >invoke the seek. Do you have any plans to consider applying the Cygwin >patch at all or do we just get to live with a floppy seek at every >login or invocation of find? Let me say it again. This is not new behavior: 2003-08-05 Pavel Tsekov * path.cc (cygdrive_getmntent): Do not skip over drives of type DRIVE_REMOVABLE. Perhaps you should be discussing this with Pavel. 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/