X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: reading directory .: No such file or directory Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:34:03 -0500 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <002201c6e319$9665f670$c704d98d@cit.wayne.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <002201c6e319$9665f670$c704d98d@cit.wayne.edu> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Lee Maschmeyer wrote: > I've never had ls say it can't read ., but I do remember having path > completion problems. I think that's why I use symbolic links instead of > mount for drives; something like: > > cd / > ln -s /cygdrive/c > > etc. Then I just cd /c and seldom have to use /cygdrive at all. I'm sure > somebody will explain why this is a bad idea, which is one reason I'm > responding here. But it does seem to muddle through... First reason it's a bad (or at least, dumb) idea: 'mount -c /' :-) As for the OP's problem, I think I saw someone else mention the exact same problem recently. Try searching the archives. -- Matthew Download. Untar. Configure. Make. Install. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. -- 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/